African-American/Afro-Canadian schooling: from the colonial period to the present / Charles L. Glenn.
2011
LC2741 .G54 2011
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Title
African-American/Afro-Canadian schooling: from the colonial period to the present / Charles L. Glenn.
Author
Glenn, Charles Leslie, 1938-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780230114166 (hardback)
0230114164
9780230119505 (e-book)
0230114164
9780230119505 (e-book)
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 203 pages ) : illustrations
Call Number
LC2741 .G54 2011
Summary
"An overview of efforts to provide formal schooling to Black children and youth in North America, from the Colonial period to the present, both in the South and in the North and Canada The account includes the damaging racial assumptions of the White majority, the often-heroic efforts of Black parents and teachers to provide education, the contributions of Black churches and White missionary organizations during Reconstruction and long after, formal and informal mechanisms of segregation in the North as well as the South, resistance to desegregation in recent decades, and new approaches to education that reduce the racial achievement gap"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Assumptions about Race * Enslaved and Free Blacks Before 1862 * Equipping the Freedman * Jim Crow South * Jim Crow North * 'Uplifting the Race' * Integration and Its Disappointments * Have We Learned Anything?
Assumptions about Race * Enslaved and Free Blacks Before 1862 * Equipping the Freedman * Jim Crow South * Jim Crow North * 'Uplifting the Race' * Integration and Its Disappointments * Have We Learned Anything?