We are an African people
Subtitle: independent education, black power, and the radical imagination
By: Russell Rickford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199861477
Subjects: Black nationalism; Racism in education; African American schools; Black power; Discrimination in education; Education; African Americans; History
Description: By 1970, more than 60 'Pan African nationalist' schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, had appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate and were routinely harassed by authorities. Yet these institutions served as critical mechanisms for transmitting black consciousness. In this book, based on his Bancroft Award-winning dissertation, historian Russell Rickford traces the brief lives of these autonomous black institutions created to claim some of the self-determination that the integrationist civil rights movement had failed to provide.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination; title: Community Control and the Struggle for Black Education in the 1960s; title: Black Studies and the Politics of "Relevance"; title: The Evolution of Movement Schools; title: African Restoration and the Promise and Pitfalls of Cultural Politics; title: The Maturation of Pan African Nationalism; title: The Black University and the "Total Community"; title: The End of Illusions; title: Epilogue : Afrocentrism and the Neoliberal Ethos.