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Cultural Capital and Black Education
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that cultural capital from African American communities may be important for closing the gap in the funding of black schools in the 21st century.
Cultural Capital and Black Education
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that cultural capital from African American communities may be important for closing the gap in the funding of black schools in the 21st century.
Black Self-determination
This path-breaking study questions many of the previous assessments of the cultural objectives of Afro-Americans and points the way toward the new and decisive role black Americans may soon be playing in American life. V.P. Franklin, associate professor of History and Afro-American studies at Yale University, examines the "core values" of the Afro-American experience. He quotes from early slave narratives, songs, sermons, and interviews with ex-slaves to show how Afro-Americans came to value freedom, resistance, and black unity and to formulate cultural values separate from white dominated society. - Back cover.
Black Self-determination
Explains that from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries Black mass movements have been acts of self-determination, and not acts of assimilation into white society
The Mis-education of the Negro
Classic book of reflections by Woodson, the black American scholar of the first half of 20th century, on the mistakes made in the education of the black people.
African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century
In recent scholarship, academics have focused primarily on areas of conflict between Blacks and Jews; yet, in the long struggle to bring social justice to American society, these two groups have often worked as allies in both the organized labor and the civil rights movements.Demonstrating the complexity of the relationship of Blacks and Jews in America, African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century examines the competition and solidarity that have characterized Black-Jewish interactions over the past century. These essays provide an intellectual foundation for cooperative efforts to improve social justice in our society and are an invaluable resource for the study of race relations in twentieth-century America. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths
From the publication of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845 to Brent Staples' Parallel Time in the 1990s, the autobiography has been the most important literary genre in the African-American intellectual tradition. This book provides a comprehensive examination of African-American intellectual history, presenting original interpretations of the lives and thought of 12 major black American writers and political leaders who have played a central role in this powerful literary genre.
Vindicating the Race
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Knocking at Our Own Door
What caused one of America's most promising civil rights movements to implode on the eve of change? Knocking at Our Own Door chronicles the life of New York's preeminent but little-studied integrationist, Milton A. Galamison, and his controversial struggle to improve the lives of the city's most underprivileged children. This detailed account brings insight into the complexities of urban politics, race relations, and school reform.
