The Education of Blacks in the South,..., James D. Anderson
The Education of Blacks in the South,..., James D. Anderson
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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

Author: James D. Anderson

Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn

Unabridged: 12 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2021


Synopsis

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, and most southern school officials—conflicted with the aspirations of ex-slaves and their descendants, resulting at the turn of the century in a bitter national debate over the purposes of black education. Because blacks lacked economic and political power, white elites were able to control the structure and content of black elementary, secondary, normal, and college education during the 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.

About James D. Anderson

James D. Anderson is dean of the College of Education and the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education. His scholarship focuses broadly on the history of US education, with specializations in the history of African American education in the South, the history of higher education desegregation, the history of public school desegregation, and the history of African American school achievement in the 20th century. Anderson's book, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, won the American Educational Research Association outstanding book award in 1990.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angie on February 21, 2016

Extremely readable. Consider the epilogue required reading if you can't finish for some reason. I do wish there had been room to talk about Howard University and the leading liberal arts private universities. But, this is important reading for any American educator. This really had an impact on my un......more

Goodreads review by Lucas on July 21, 2019

Esse livro trata da evolução da educação da população negra americana do fim da Guerra Civil até a década de 1960. Grosso modo, é possível dividir o período estudado em dois subperíodos. O primeiro, entre o fim da guerra e a eleição de 1876, é marcado pela forte mobilização de ex-escravos que teve c......more

Goodreads review by Gillian on February 12, 2018

A thorough and insistent analysis of white supremacy's attempts to prevent the education of Blacks in the American South, and the Black population's widespread resistance to and subversion of these efforts. Anderson's account of the insidious and pervasive nature of the Hampton-Tuskegee method, and......more

Goodreads review by Elliedakota on June 22, 2018

Class assignment EFR500. Good info, but very repetitive. Could be much shorter and still as informative.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on July 29, 2021

One of the best books I've read this year. I came to it because it featured a number of subjects I am interested in: education; Reconstruction; the American Baptist Home Mission Society and their work among the Freedmen of the south after the war; Black history; Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bo......more