Overview

This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being ""inherently inferior"" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as ""good and valued"" among former students, teachers, and community members. Using interview data with 44 former teachers in three North Carolina counties, college and university archival materials, and secondary historical sources, the author argues that ""Jim Crow’s teachers"" remember from hidden transcripts—latent reports of the social world created and lived in all-black schools and communities—which reveal hidden social relations and practices that were constructed away from powerful white educational authorities. The author concludes that the national memory of ""inherently inferior"" all-black schools does not tell the whole story about legally segregated education; the collective remembering of Jim Crow’s teachers reveal a critique of power and a fight for respectability that shaped teachers’ work in the Age of Segregation.

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Author:   Hilton Kelly (Davidson College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780415638043

ISBN 10:   0415638046
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   30 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Part One: Teachers and Teaching Chapter One: ""Dying with One’s Boots On"": Collective Remembering of Legally Segregated Schools for Blacks and Its Teachers Chapter Two: You Must Remember This: Reconstructions of the Geopolitics of Race and Racism in the Jim Crow South Chapter Three: Voices of Collective Remembering: Black Teachers in Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties Part Two: Hidden Transcripts Revealed Chapter Four: ""The Way We Found Them to Be"": Black Teachers and the Politics of Respectability in Jim Crow North Carolina Chapter Five: A Strategy of Opportunity: Black Teachers and the Making of a New Form of Capital Part Three: Remembering Jim Crow’s Teachers Chapter Five: ""The Half Had Not Been Told"": Hidden Transcripts Made Public"

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Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association

Author Information

Hilton Kelly is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor of Education at Davidson College. With published and forthcoming articles in Educational Studies, Urban Education, and Educational Foundations, Kelly’s scholarship addresses important questions at the intersection of the sociology of education, African-American history and culture, and the lives and work of teachers.

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