Baldwin and Curriculum Studies: Multiple Perspectives

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, 60 years after his publication of The Fire Next Time, and 50 years after his work “A Dialogue “ (with Nikki Giovanni), James Baldwin’s work has had a tremendous scholarly influence in a variety of ways and disciplines. Curriculum scholars will examine, explore, discuss and debate the impact of Baldwin’s writings and activism to knowledge acquisition, knowledge production and knowledge construction.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Theodorea Regina Berry, Bloomfield College of Montclair State University

Discussant

• Theodorea Regina Berry, Bloomfield College of Montclair State University

Panelists

• Carl A. Grant, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Keffrelyn D. Brown, University of Texas at Austin

• Paul William Eaton, University of Alabama