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Education as freedom African American educational thought and activism

"Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, Blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the American South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role of education in American freedom and progress emerged from African American civic, political, religious, and artistic communities and was informed by the complexity of the Black experience in American. ... [A] groundbreaking edited text that documents and reexamines African American empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to knowledge-making, teaching, and American schooling from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century. African American thought and activism regarding education burgeoned from traditional academic disciplines, such as philosophy and art, mathematics and the natural sciences, history and psychology; from the Black church as well as from grassroots political, social, cultural, and education movements, assessing the stake of African Americans in modernity and advancing African American humanity."--P. [4] of cover.

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