Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow''s Teachers

Zusatztext Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association Informationen zum Autor Hilton Kelly is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor of Education at Davidson College. With published and forthcoming articles in Educational Studies, Urban Education, and Educational Foundations, Kelly's scholarship addresses important questions at the intersection of the sociology of education, African-American history and culture, and the lives and work of teachers. Klappentext Using oral history interviews with forty-four former teachers from the Jim Crow era, local and state archival materials, and secondary historical sources, Hilton Kelly examines the surprising counter-memories of students, teachers, and community members who recall these schools not as being inferior, but as being of sufficient quality. Zusammenfassung Using oral history interviews with forty-four former teachers from the Jim Crow era, local and state archival materials, and secondary historical sources, Hilton Kelly examines the surprising counter-memories of students, teachers, and community members who recall these schools not as being inferior, but as being of sufficient quality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Part One: Teachers and Teaching Chapter One: "Dying with One’s Boots On": Collective Remembering of Legally Segregated Schools for Blacks and Its Teachers Chapter Two: You Must Remember This: Reconstructions of the Geopolitics of Race and Racism in the Jim Crow South Chapter Three: Voices of Collective Remembering: Black Teachers in Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties Part Two: Hidden Transcripts Revealed Chapter Four: "The Way We Found Them to Be": Black Teachers and the Politics of Respectability in Jim Crow North Carolina Chapter Five: A Strategy of Opportunity: Black Teachers and the Making of a New Form of Capital Part Three: Remembering Jim Crow’s Teachers Chapter Five: "The Half Had Not Been Told": Hidden Transcripts Made Public ...

Product details

• Authors: Hilton Kelly, Hilton (Davidson College Kelly, Kelly Hilton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2010
• EAN: 9780415804783
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80478-3
• No. of pages: 134
• Series: Studies in African American History and Culture; Studies in African American Hi; Studies in African American History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / General, EDUCATION / History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, Moral and social purpose of education, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, Moral & social purpose of education, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism