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The Uplifting (Paperback)
James D. Anderson, Jason Jafleu Fleurant, Eric Thompson Jr
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R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
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Based on a PhD thesis presented to Newcastle University in 1992,
this book assesses through a specific survey area the efficiency of
Raymond Selkirk's Piercebridge formula for Roman river
transportation systems across Britain. Evidence for the formula is
examined at ten sites across the North-east, and an alternative to
the Piercebridge formula method of supply to the Roman army in the
North-east is advanced.
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern
black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By
placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic
context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to
education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the
conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other
matters. Initially, ex-slaves attempted to create an educational
system that would support and extend their emancipation, but their
children were pushed into a system of industrial education that
presupposed black political and economic subordination. This
conception of education and social order--supported by northern
industrial philanthropists, some black educators, and most southern
school officials--conflicted with the aspirations of ex-slaves and
their descendants, resulting at the turn of the century in a bitter
national debate over the purposes of black education. Because
blacks lacked economic and political power, white elites were able
to control the structure and content of black elementary,
secondary, normal, and college education during the first third of
the twentieth century. Nonetheless, blacks persisted in their
struggle to develop an educational system in accordance with their
own needs and desires. |James Anderson critically reinterprets the
history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the
Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political,
cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black
commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee
Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic
groups, among other matters.
The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive
ideological machine to establish social order, create political
consensus, train obedient citizen-workers, and dispatch
marginalized groups to their « place. Mass public education has
helped to forge the modern political state that enforces social and
racial inequality. Disenchanted African Americans, representing
dissenting viewpoints, have vigorously protested this educational
system, which is rooted in segregation, differentiated funding,
falsehoods, alienation, and exclusion. This important book belongs
in classrooms devoted to achieving racial equality in public
education.
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