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We are an African people : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination / Russell Rickford.
- Title
- We are an African people : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination / Russell Rickford.
- Author
- Rickford, Russell John
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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- Description
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- Summary
- 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 institutions served as critical mechanisms for transmitting black consciousness. In this book, based on his Bancroft Award-winning dissertation, historian Russell Rickford traces the brief lives of these autonomous black institutions created to claim some of the self-determination that the integrationist civil rights movement had failed to provide.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Alternative Title
- Independent education, black power, and the radical imagination
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- African Americans > Education > History > 20th century
- African American schools > History > 20th century
- Black power > United States > History > 20th century
- Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century
- Racism in education > United States > History > 20th century
- Discrimination in education > United States > History > 20th century
- African American schools
- African Americans > Education
- Black nationalism
- Black power
- Discrimination in education
- Racism in education
- Educational sociology > United States > History > 20th century
- Urban schools > United States > History
- Pan-Africanism
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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 End of Illusions -- Epilogue : Afrocentrism and the Neoliberal Ethos.
- ISBN
- 9780199861477 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 0199861471 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2015018301
- OCLC
- 921839787
- SCSB-11075161
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library