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Booker T. Washington Rediscovered
Michael Scott Bieze
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Description for Booker T. Washington Rediscovered
Hardback. Du Bois and other black leaders. Editor(s): Bieze, Michael Scott; Gasman, Marybeth. Num Pages: 280 pages, 163, 163 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; JFSL3; JN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 953.
Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washington sought to use education to bridge the nation's racial divide. This volume explores Washington's life and work through his writings and speeches. Drawing on previously unpublished writings, hard-to-find speeches and essays, and other primary documents from public and private collections, Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman provide a balanced and insightful ... Read more
Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washington sought to use education to bridge the nation's racial divide. This volume explores Washington's life and work through his writings and speeches. Drawing on previously unpublished writings, hard-to-find speeches and essays, and other primary documents from public and private collections, Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman provide a balanced and insightful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421404707
SKU
V9781421404707
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About Michael Scott Bieze
Michael Scott Bieze is the chair of the Fine Arts Department at Marist School and the author of Booker T. Washington and the Art of Self-Representation. Marybeth Gasman is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her recent books include The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American ... Read more
Reviews for Booker T. Washington Rediscovered
Black educator Booker T. Washington is finally escaping his long-held characterization as an 'Uncle Tom,' particularly when measured against Harvard sociologist and freedom fighter W.E.B. DuBois.
Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive Most significantly, the book's rich use of pictures to show historical documents provides contexts and shows the aura they possessed, considerably more than ... Read more
Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive Most significantly, the book's rich use of pictures to show historical documents provides contexts and shows the aura they possessed, considerably more than ... Read more