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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821733703321

Titolo

A community of voices on education and the african american experience : a record of struggles and triumphs / / edited by Hazel Arnett Ervin and Lois Jamison Sheer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4438-8955-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Disciplina

374.008996073

Soggetti

African Americans - Education - History

African Americans - Social conditions

African Americans - Education

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a history of African American education, while also serving as a companion text for teachers, students and researchers in cultural criticism, American and African American studies, postcolonialism, historiography, and psychoanalytics. Overall, it represents essential reading for scholars, critics, leaders of educational policy, and all others interested in ongoing discussions not only about the role of community, family, teachers and others in facilitating quality education for the citizenry, but also about ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to, and attainmen