2023/02/07 Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"School clothes" and the Black vernacular -- Living and learning behind the veil -- Going to school north of slavery -- Becoming fugitive learners -- Learning and striving in the afterlife of slavery -- Reading in the dark : becoming Black literate subjects -- A singing school for justice -- Some of them became schoolteachers -- Hieroglyphics of the Black student body.
Summary:
"Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Jarvis Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines. He details the educational lives ofwriters such as Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison; political leaders like Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis; and Black students whose names are largely unknown but who left their marks nonetheless. Givens blends this multitude of individual voices into a single narrative, a collective memoir, to reveal a through line shared across time and circumstance: a story of African American youth learning to battle the violent condemnation of Black life and imposed miseducation meant to quell their resistance"-- Provided by publisher.
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