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Author:   Ronald E. Chennault ,  Derrick P. Alridge ,  Ronald E. Chennault ,  Derrick P. Alridge
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781978829992

ISBN 10:   197882999
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   14 July 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Liberation and Education: Toward a History of Black Educational Thought Ronald E. Chennault and Derrick P. Alridge Chapter 1: African American Living Memory, Pedagogy, and the Slave Past: A Phenomenological Exploration of Remembrance Stephen Haymes Chapter 2: “At the Table”: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Early Rise of Womanism Traki Taylor Chapter 3: The Sacred Mission: Mapping the Intellectual Genealogy of Carter Godwin Woodson Lasana D. Kazembe Chapter 4: Anna Julia Cooper and Septima Poinsette Clark: Adult Education for Freedom, Racial Advancement, and Political Activism Karen A. Johnson Chapter 5: Black Women and White Philanthropy: The Impact of White Funding in the Development of the First Generation of Black Women Scholars and Artists Linda Perkins Chapter 6: Black Higher Educational Thought, 1932-1944 Alexis Johnson Chapter 7: “Mind Stayed on Freedom”: The History and Legacy of the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Program Kristal Moore Clemons and Lauren Lefty Chapter 8: Education for Self-Determination: New Concept Development Center and Black Power Education in Chicago Worth Kamili Hayes Chapter 9: Critical Race Theory and Black Educational Thought: A Conversation Adrienne Dixson and Gloria Ladson-Billings Chapter 10: Slow Moving Tides: Black Women Leaders and the Politics of Representation Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Talia R. Esnard, and Maria Migueliz Valcarlos Chapter 11: Theories about Blackness in Education: Amplifying the Black Radical Tradition as a Path Toward Black Educational Futures Wintre Foxworth Johnson and Samiha Rahman Chapter 12: “I Got a Lot to Be Mad About”: The Anti-Blackness of Social Emotional Learning and Paths to Liberation Johari Harris and Leoandra Onnie Rogers Chapter 13: Fulfilling Education’s Promise of Freedom: Advancing Black Identity and Subjectivity for Commensurate Citizenship Sheron Fraser-Burgess Chapter 14: Beyond Ressentiment: Notes Toward a Critical Moral Theory of African American Education Corey D. B. Walker Chapter 15: Reclaiming Communally Bonded Educators (CBE): A New, but Old Vision for the Field and Function of Black Educators Jerome E. Morris and Luimil M. NegrÓn-PÉrez Chapter 16: Education for Liberation in Black/Africana Studies and African-centered Education James B. Stewart Notes Notes on Contributors Index

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""Liberation and Education embodies the Sankofa spirit, illuminating the past, present, and future of Black intellectual thought. From African ancestors to contemporary voices across the diaspora, this volume affirms that Black communities have always engaged--and will continue to engage--in transformative educational strategies that nurture our collective well-being."" --Gloria Swindler Boutte ""coeditor of We Be Lovin' Black Children: Learning to Be Literate About the African Diaspora""

Author Information

Ronald E. Chennault is an associate professor in the College of Education at DePaul University. He is a coeditor of White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America (1998) and is the author of Hollywood Films About Schools: Where Race, Politics, and Education Intersect (2006) and of Anti-Public: How Elite Discourse Harms Public Education (Rutgers University Press, 2026). Derrick P. Alridge is the Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (2008) and a coeditor of The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (2021) and Message in the Music: Hip-Hop History and Pedagogy (2010). He has also served as president of the History of Education Society.

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