Author: Wayne UrbanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135641625
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Essays in Twentieth-Century Southern Education
Author: Wayne UrbanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135641625
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The American South in the Twentieth Century
Author: Craig S. PascoePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In the South today, the sight of a Latina in a NASCAR T-shirt behind the register at an Asian grocery would hardly draw a second glance. That scenario, and our likely reaction to it, surely signals something important--but what? Here some of the region’s most respected and readable observers look across the past century to help us take stock of where the South is now and where it may be headed. Reflecting the writers’ deep interests in southern history, politics, literature, religion, and other matters, the essays engage in new ways some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed--or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness? Although the essays touch on an engaging diversity of topics including the USDA’s crop spraying policies, Tom Wolfe’s novel A Man in Full, and collegiate women’s soccer, they ultimately cluster around a common set of themes. These include race, segregation and the fall of Jim Crow, gender, cultural distinctiveness and identity, modernization, education, and urbanization. Mindful of the South’s reputation for insularity, the essays also gauge the impact of federal assistance, relocated industries, immigration, and other outside influences. As one contributor writes, and as all would acknowledge, those who undertake a project like this “should bear in mind that they are tracking a target moving constantly but often erratically.” The rewards of pondering a place as elusive, complex, and contradictory as the American South are on full display here.
Essays in Twentieth-century Southern Education
Author: Wayne J. UrbanPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815326243
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Southern History Across the Color Line
Author: Nell Irvin PainterPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807853603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.
Educating Harlem
Author: Ansley T. EricksonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231544049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to provide a broad consideration of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community despite consistent neglect and structural oppression. Contributors investigate the individuals, organizations, and initiatives that fostered educational visions, underscoring their breadth, variety, and persistence. Their essays span the century, from the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance through the 1970s fiscal crisis and up to the present. They tell the stories of Harlem residents from a wide variety of social positions and life experiences, from young children to expert researchers to neighborhood mothers and ambitious institution builders who imagined a dynamic array of possibilities from modest improvements to radical reshaping of their schools. Representing many disciplinary perspectives, the chapters examine a range of topics including architecture, literature, film, youth and adult organizing, employment, and city politics. Challenging the conventional rise-and-fall narratives found in many urban histories, the book tells a story of persistent struggle in each phase of the twentieth century. Educating Harlem paints a nuanced portrait of education in a storied community and brings much-needed historical context to one of the most embattled educational spaces today.
"A Visible Company of Professionals"
Author: Carol F. KarpinskiPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820488486
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the National Education Association (NEA). This book explores the relationship between the NEA, the nation's largest teacher organization, and the predominately black American Teachers Association, and illustrates how African American educators helped to redefine the NEA's core ideology to include the support of policies, practice, and politics that promoted educational equity for children and educators who have been historically marginalized. Examining heated debates in African American communities and in the NEA, and the immediate and long-term effects of inclusion on educators and public school children, this book reveals teacher associations as something more than labor unions and educators as activists for educational equity, while it documents the perils, disappointments, and advantages of professional cohesion. The book's documentation of leadership in particularly challenging settings fills a void in literature for teacher preparation and educational leadership programs.
New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School
Author: Kyle P. SteelePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783030799243
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. The history of education, however, has often reduced the institution to its educational function alone, thus missing its significantly broader importance. As a corrective, this collection of essays serves four ends: as an introduction to the history of the high school; as a reevaluation of the power of narratives that privilege the perspective of school leaders and the curriculum; as a glimpse into the worlds created by students and their communities; and, most critically, as a means of sparking conversations about where we might look next for stories worth telling.
Workers in Industrial America
Author: David BrodyPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This famous book, representing some of the finest thinking and writing about the history of American labor in the twentieth century, is now revised to incorporate two important recent essays, one surveying the historical study of the CIO from its founding to its fiftieth anniversary in 1985, another placing in historical and comparative perspective the declining fortunes of the labor movement from 1980 to the present. As always, Brody confronts central questions, both substantive and historiographical, focusing primarily on the efforts of laboring people to assert some control overtheir working lives, and on the equal determination of American business to conserve the prerogatives of management. Long a classic in the field of American labor history, valued by general readers and specialists alike for its brilliance of argument and clarity of style, Workers in IndustrialAmerica is now more timely than ever.
Leaders of Their Race
Author: Sarah H. CasePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099842
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white women with elite backgrounds. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, Case's analysis shows how race, gender, sexuality, and region worked within these institutions to shape education. Her comparative approach shines a particular light on how female education embodied the complex ways racial and gender identity functioned at the time. As she shows, the schools cultivated modesty and self-restraint to protect the students. Indeed, concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the schools despite their different student populations. Case also follows the lives of the women as adult teachers, alumnae, and activists who drew on their education to negotiate the New South's economic and social upheavals.
Black Scholars on the Line
Author: Jonathan Scott HollowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
'Black Scholars On the Line' explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and subjects of a segregated society. This books asks how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, American social thought.