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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813607503321

Autore

Glenn Charles Leslie <1938->

Titolo

African-American/Afro-Canadian schooling : from the colonial period to the present / / Charles L. Glenn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

ISBN

1-283-15891-4

9786613158918

0-230-34346-5

0-230-11950-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Classificazione

EDU016000EDU000000REL026000

Disciplina

371.82996073

Soggetti

African Americans - Education - History

Blacks - Education - Canada - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Assumptions about Race * Enslaved and Free Blacks Before 1862 * Equipping the Freedman * Jim Crow South * Jim Crow North * 'Uplifting the Race' * Integration and Its Disappointments * Have We Learned Anything?

Sommario/riassunto

"An overview of efforts to provide formal schooling to Black children and youth in North America, from the Colonial period to the present, both in the South and in the North and Canada The account includes the damaging racial assumptions of the White majority, the often-heroic efforts of Black parents and teachers to provide education, the contributions of Black churches and White missionary organizations during Reconstruction and long after, formal and informal mechanisms of segregation in the North as well as the South, resistance to desegregation in recent decades, and new approaches to education that reduce the racial achievement gap"--