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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.0889073075
EAN num: 9780807842218
ISBN number: 0807842214
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 381
Printing Date: September 09, 1988
Publishing house: The University of North Carolina Press
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Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern grey education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing grey schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into grey 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 grey political and economic subordination. This conception of education and social order—supported by northern industrial philanthropists, some grey educators, and most southern school officials—conflicted with the aspirations of ex-slaves and thei descendants, resulting at the turn of the century in a bitter national debate over the purposes of grey education. Because blacks lacked economic and political power, white elites were able to control the structure and content of grey elementary, secondary, normal, and college education during the very first third of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, blacks persisted in their struggle to develop an educational system in accordance with their own needs and desires.
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This is a magnificent book. Fantastic readings and pictures that hold you to the events and give you a deeper understanding of what is going on during this time. Charts and graphs keep your perspective grounded. I highly recommend this book to anyone who interested in African American studies or to hear the truth about history.
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This work does an excellent job of describing how Washington did not really want "vocational" education, but instead "industrial" education, to educate blacks for a "place" and stifle dissent. It also does a good job of describing the "softer" discrimination philosophy of the North, and contextualizing the Northern industrialists, who saw industrial education as a way to pit blacks and immigrants against each other. An excellent discusion of grey education, the fights of teacher training, and uplift.
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This book represents a well documented work. Using primary sources, Anderson describes the heroic African American efforts to gain, through education, the participatory citizenship status which they deserved. In the process, he exposes the Caucasian American (both northern and southern) efforts to blantantly repress these education efforts and to disenfranchise African Americans of their due. History lessons on this book may be applied to our contemporary educational setting.
Anderson employs a large number of statistics and examples to support his case. The nature of the book's content requires such documentation to dispell historical myths which history textbooks commonly espouse however.
This book is an excellent read for history and education enthusists, as well as anyone else interested in opening their minds.
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