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Education Of Blacks In The South 1860
James D. Anderson
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Paperback. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 Num Pages: 381 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters. Initially, ex-slaves attempted to create an educational system that would support and extend their emancipation, but their children were pushed into a system of industrial education that presupposed black political and economic subordination. This conception of education and social order--supported by northern industrial philanthropists, some black educators, ... Read more
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters. Initially, ex-slaves attempted to create an educational system that would support and extend their emancipation, but their children were pushed into a system of industrial education that presupposed black political and economic subordination. This conception of education and social order--supported by northern industrial philanthropists, some black educators, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
381
Condition
New
Number of Pages
381
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807842218
SKU
V9780807842218
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About James D. Anderson
James Anderson is professor of the history of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coeditor of New Perspectives on Black Educational History.
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