Fugitive Pedagogy
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Fugitive Pedagogy

Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

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Fugitive Pedagogy

Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

About this book

A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today.

"As departments…scramble to decolonize their curriculum, Givens illuminates a longstanding counter-canon in predominantly black schools and colleges."
—Boston Review

"Informative and inspiring…An homage to the achievement of an often-forgotten racial pioneer."
—Glenn C. Altschuler, Florida Courier

"A long-overdue labor of love and analysis…that would make Woodson, the ever-rigorous teacher, proud."
—Randal Maurice Jelks, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Fascinating, and groundbreaking. Givens restores Carter G. Woodson, one of the most important educators and intellectuals of the twentieth century, to his rightful place alongside figures like W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells."
—Imani Perry, author of May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem

Black education was subversive from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of "fugitive pedagogy"—a theory and practice of Black education epitomized by Carter G. Woodson—groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow.

Givens shows that Woodson succeeded because of the world of Black teachers to which he belonged. Fugitive Pedagogy chronicles his ambitious efforts to fight what he called the "mis-education of the Negro" by helping teachers and students to see themselves and their mission as set apart from an anti-Black world. Teachers, students, families, and communities worked together, using Woodson's materials and methods as they fought for power in schools. Forged in slavery and honed under Jim Crow, the vision of the Black experience Woodson articulated so passionately and effectively remains essential for teachers and students today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: A New Grammar for Black Education
  6. Introduction: Blackness and the Art of Teaching
  7. 1. Between Coffle and Classroom: Carter G. Woodson as a Student and Teacher, 1875–1912
  8. 2. “The Association . . . Is Standing Like the Watchman on the Wall”: Fugitive Pedagogy and Black Institutional Life
  9. 3. A Language We Can See a Future In: Black Educational Criticism as Theory in Its Own Right
  10. 4. The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Curricular Imaginations: Constructing New Scripts of Knowledge
  11. 5. Fugitive Pedagogy as a Professional Standard: Woodson’s “Abroad Mentorship” of Black Teachers
  12. 6. “Doomed to Be Both a Witness and a Participant”: The Shared Vulnerability of Black Students and Black Teachers
  13. Conclusion: Black Schoolteachers and the Origin Story of Black Studies
  14. Notes
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Index