Jarvis R. Givens

School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 of writers 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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780807054819
• ISBN-10: 080705481X
• Artikelnr.: 64052789

Autorenporträt

Jarvis R. Givens

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
“School Clothes” and the Black Vernacular
INTRODUCTION
Living and Learning Behind the Veil
CHAPTER 1
Going to School North of Slavery
CHAPTER 2
Becoming Fugitive Learners
CHAPTER 3
Learning and Striving in the Afterlife of Slavery
CHAPTER 4
Reading in the Dark: Becoming Black Literate Subjects
CHAPTER 5
A Singing School for Justice
CHAPTER 6
Some of Them Became Schoolteachers
CONCLUSION
Hieroglyphics of the Black Student Body
Acknowledgments
Notes
Image Credits
Index