From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875 - Couverture rigide

Span, Christopher M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807832901 ISBN 13 : 9780807832905

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Synopsis

In the years immediately following the Civil War - the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi - there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. ""From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse"" is the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education.The primary debate centered on whether schools for African Americans (mostly freed people) should seek to develop blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. African Americans envisioned schools established by and for themselves as a primary means of achieving independence, equality, political empowerment, and some degree of social and economic mobility - in essence, full citizenship. Most northerners assisting freed people regarded such expectations as unrealistic and expected African Americans to labor under contract for those who had previously enslaved them and their families. Meanwhile, many white Mississippians objected to any educational opportunities for the former slaves. Christopher Span finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed.

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À propos de l'auteur

CHRISTOPHER M. SPAN is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807832901
• ISBN 13: 9780807832905
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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