School clothes: a collective memoir of Black student witness

"Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Jarvis Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines. He details the educational lives of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and R...

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1. Verfasser: Givens, Jarvis R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston Beacon Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:"Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Jarvis Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines. He details the educational lives of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison; political leaders like Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis; and Black students whose names are largely unknown but who left their marks nonetheless. Givens blends this multitude of individual voices into a single narrative, a collective memoir, to reveal a through line shared across time and circumstance: a story of African American youth learning to battle the violent condemnation of Black life and imposed miseducation meant to quell their resistance"--
Beschreibung:2302
Beschreibung:xii, 228 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9780807054819
080705481X

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