Black Protest Thought and Education
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Overview
The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to establish social order, create political consensus, train obedient citizen-workers, and dispatch marginalized groups to their "place." Mass public education has helped to forge the modern political state that enforces social and racial inequality. Disenchanted African American, representing dissenting viewpoints, have vigorously protested this educational system, which is rooted in segregation, differentiated funding, falsehoods, alienation, and exclusion. This important book belongs in classrooms devoted to achieving racial equality in public education.Synopsis
In this collection of nine essays, contributors describe how African Americans have reacted to a white-run education system that is built to produce workers for a corporate-industrial state that does not want them. topics include pedagogy and politics in the context of power, the politics of early black nationalism within education, black feminist pedagogy, Marxian and radical reconstructionist critiques of American education, community control within black nationalism, leadership and the cultural Other, teacher reform efforts and the politics of educational change, and critical race theory as an educational protest. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR