Tag: African American slavery and education

  • Kimberly J. ROBINSON – Slavery as a System of Compulsory Ignorance

    Conference: Teaching Race & Slavery in the American Classroom – Gilder Lehrman Center 2022 Annual Conference Concluding roundtable: Why Do We Teach US History? Books recommended: Heather Andrea Williams > Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture); and David Walker’s Appeal *We have…

  • Professor Johann N. Neem about Public Education in America

    Conference: Teaching Race and slavery in the American classroom – Gilder Lehrman Center 2022 Annual Conference Panel: History of U.S. Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It? Book recommended: Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (How Things Worked), Johns Hopkins University Press (August 1, 2017) *The black and white school enrollment…