Contents
Dedication
Preface
Part I
Introduction: Out From the Gloomy Past
Selection 1: In Secret Places: Acquiring Literacy in Slave Communities - Heather Andrea Williams
Selection 2: Ex-Slaves and the Rise of Universal Education in the South, 1860-1880 - James D. Anderson
Selection 3: Spreading the Word: The Cultural Work of the Black Press - Elizabeth McHenry
Selection 4: The Spread of Northern School Segregation, 1890-1940 - D. M. Douglas
Selection 5: Organized Resistance and Black Educators' Quest for School Equality, 1878-1938 - Vanessa Siddle Walker
Selection 6: Patterns of Black Excellence - Thomas Sowell
Selection 7: The Price of Desegregation - Trudier Harris
Part II
Introduction: A (Black) Nation at Risk?
Selection 8: Black Students' School Success: Coping With the Burden of "Acting White"- Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu
Selection 9: Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology - A. A. Akom
Selection 10: The Canary in the Mine: The Achievement Gap Between Black and WhiteStudents - Mano Singham
Selection 11: Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - Gloria Ladson-Billings
Selection 12: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom - bell hooks
Selection 13: Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education - Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate IV
Selection 14: Early Schooling and Academic Achievement of African American Males - James Earl Davis
Selection 15: "Those Loud Black Girls": (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender "Passing" in the Academy - Signithia Fordham
Selection 16: Framing and Reviewing Hip-Hop Educational Research - Emery Petchauer
Selection 17: "Be Real Black for Me": Imagining BlackCrit in Education - Michael J. Dumas and kihana miraya ross
Index
NOTE: Information subject to change up until publication date.
