Thinking About Black Education

In 2022, Hilton Kelly became the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. For most of his career, Kelly has been a Professor of Educational Studies and Africana Studies, and Chair of the Educational Studies Department at Davidson College. He received his B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and both his M.S. in labor studies and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research and teaching interests include sociology of education, critical race theory, the Age of Jim Crow, the lives, work, and careers of African-American educators, and social memory studies. In 2010, he published Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers in the Routledge Studies in African-American History and Culture Series. His articles have appeared in Urban Education, Educational Studies, The Urban Review, The Journal of Negro Education, The American Sociologist, and Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography. In 2018, he served as the President of the American Educational Studies Association. Heather Moore Roberson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Community & Justice Studies and Black Studies at Allegheny College. She received her B.A. in Educational Studies and American Studies from Trinity College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University. Moore Roberson conducts research in the fields of critical race theory, boyhood studies, and justice learning. She has published several book chapters and select articles in various interdisciplinary journals like Radical Teacher and Professing Education.

Dedication
Preface
Part I
Introduction: Out From the Gloomy Past
Selection 1: In Secret Places: Acquiring Literacy in Slave Communities – Heather Andrea Williams
Selection 2: Ex-Slaves and the Rise of Universal Education in the South, 1860–1880 – James D. Anderson
Selection 3: Spreading the Word: The Cultural Work of the Black Press – Elizabeth McHenry
Selection 4: The Spread of Northern School Segregation, 1890–1940 – D. M. Douglas
Selection 5: Organized Resistance and Black Educators' Quest for School Equality, 1878–1938 – Vanessa Siddle Walker
Selection 6: Patterns of Black Excellence – Thomas Sowell
Selection 7: The Price of Desegregation – Trudier Harris

Part II
Introduction: A (Black) Nation at Risk?
Selection 8: Black Students' School Success: Coping With the Burden of "Acting White"– Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu
Selection 9: Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology – A. A. Akom
Selection 10: The Canary in the Mine: The Achievement Gap Between Black and WhiteStudents – Mano Singham
Selection 11: Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy – Gloria Ladson-Billings
Selection 12: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom – bell hooks
Selection 13: Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education – Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate IV
Selection 14: Early Schooling and Academic Achievement of African American Males – James Earl Davis
Selection 15: "Those Loud Black Girls": (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender "Passing" in the Academy – Signithia Fordham
Selection 16: Framing and Reviewing Hip-Hop Educational Research – Emery Petchauer
Selection 17: "Be Real Black for Me": Imagining BlackCrit in Education – Michael J. Dumas and kihana miraya ross
Index
NOTE: Information subject to change up until publication date.