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""In American Grammar, Jarvis Givens has offered a new, meticulously detailed, and illuminating account of the origins of American education and the way schooling has served as contested territory for the making of the US citizen and the Republic. This is a superb and indispensable work of history."" -- Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America and Black in Blues ""Spectacular! Exceedingly well-written and brilliantly argued: at a time when schools have become yet another battlefield in the 'Culture War', Jarvis Givens, our pre-eminent scholar of Black Education, has provided us with a thoughtful history that sheds penetrating light on this troubling moment."" -- Gerald Horne, author of African Americans & A New History of the USA ""Too many of us assume that public education is the story of increasing access to an undeniable American good. But not so fast! As American Grammar demonstrates with brilliance, erudition, and passion, American schooling proved crucial to advancing racial difference and the social domination that accompanied it. Situating figures such as ""education president"" James Garfield, educator Booker T. Washington, and his own Afro-Choctaw ancestor Susan McCoy, Jarvis Givens offers not only a fresh understanding of American education, but a rigorous exploration of the entanglements of Black and Native pasts. Deeply informed and beautifully written, this is a transformational work, one not to be missed."" -- Philip Deloria, Author of Playing Indian

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Jarvis R. Givens is a Professor of Education and African and African American Studies and the co-founding faculty director of the Black Teacher Archive at Harvard University. He is also the current Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University College London's Institute of the Americas. Givens is the author of three books, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching; School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness; and American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation. Givens is originally from Compton, California, and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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