Repudiating (Un)Freedom: Assembling Foundations of Early Black Education, Civil Rights, and Abolition Movements in 19th Century California (Poster 38)

• In Event: AERA Promising Scholarship in Education Research: Dissertation Fellows and Their Research
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Abstract

This presentation historicizes how abolitionist praxes, pedagogies, and epistemologies rooted in the Black radical and intellectual tradition informed Black education in the American West. Examining black periodicals, personal papers, administrative state documents, and Colored Convention minutes, this project illuminates the interiority of Black educational heritages in antebellum California and untangles competing visions for Black schooling in the Western frontier. This research bridges a critical rupture in the Black educational archive to document how Black teachers transformed the sociopolitical landscape of the American West and articulated demands for social, political, and educational redress. These historical explorations expand the canon of Black educational history westward and add texture to our understanding of the limits and possibilities of educational abolitionism(s) in practice and theory.

Author

• Darion A. Wallace, Stanford University