Graduate Topics in African American Studies (480-0-20)

Topic

Black Education

Instructors

Kihana Miraya Ross

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 303: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Seventy years post Brown v. Board of Education, and over 150 years post formal Emancipation, Black students are still suffering in schools. Numerous scholars have explored the ways Black students are subjected to both explicit and implicit racialized educational policies and practices. This course aims to move beyond the terrain of traditional pathways toward educational "reform" (or even restructuring) to consider the utility of exploring antiblackness in education, the historical and contemporary projects of Black educational fugitivity, considerations of school abolition, and what it may mean to engage in "wake work" in education.

Class Materials (Required)

Anderson, J. D. (1988). The education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Univ of North Carolina Press.

Rickford, R. (2016). We are an African people: Independent education, black power, and the radical imagination. Oxford University Press. [Note this text will be available electronically if you do not want to purchase the book]

Givens, J. R. (2021). Fugitive Pedagogy. In Fugitive Pedagogy. Harvard University Press.

Woodson, C. G. (2023). The mis-education of the Negro. Penguin. ISBN: 0143137468