We are an African people : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination /

By 1970, more than 60 'Pan African nationalist' schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, had appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate and were routinely harassed by authorities. Yet these institu...

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Main Author: Rickford, Russell John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination
  • Community Control and the Struggle for Black Education in the 1960s
  • Black Studies and the Politics of "Relevance"
  • The Evolution of Movement Schools
  • African Restoration and the Promise and Pitfalls of Cultural Politics
  • The Maturation of Pan African Nationalism
  • The Black University and the "Total Community"
  • The Black Institution Depression
  • Epilogue : Afrocentrism and the Neoliberal Ethos.