An African American Dilemma
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780190605131 (ISBN)
An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to the present.
Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only--or even always the dominant--civil rights strategy. At times, African Americans also fought for separate, Black controlled schools dedicated to racial uplift and community empowerment.
An African American Dilemma offers a social history of these debates within northern Black communities from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on sources including the Black press, school board records, social science studies, the papers of civil rights activists, and court cases, it reveals that northern Black communities, urban and suburban, vacillated between a preference for either school integration or separation during specific eras. Yet, there was never a consensus. It also highlights the chorus of dissent, debate, and counter-narratives that pushed families to consider a fuller range of educational reforms.
A sweeping historical analysis that covers the entire history of public education in the North, this work complicates our understanding of school integration by highlighting the diverse perspectives of Black students, parents, teachers, and community leaders all committed to improving public education. It finds that Black school integrationists and separatists have worked together in a dynamic tension that fueled effective strategies for educational reform and the Black civil rights movement, a discussion that continues to be highly charged in present-day schooling choices.
Zoë Burkholder is Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. She is the author of Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954 (OUP, 2011) and the co-author of Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education.
"Burkholder joins emerging scholarship that complicates the long-reigning integrationist framework in civil rights history. The author demonstrates that the road to Brown and the ongoing battles over segregation did not follow a linear path. African Americans remained divided over routes to achieve educational equality...An important book...[that] will provide scholars and readers with new ways to think about civil rights and Black educational
history. Relying on geographically diverse sources that reflect over two centuries of debate, it is exhaustive in its approach." -- Tikia K. Hamilton, American Historical Review
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.08.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 halftones |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 155 mm |
| Gewicht | 558 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780190605131 / 9780190605131 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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