Learnings and Lessons From New Histories of Black Higher Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session comprises a moderated dialogue between education scholars and two historians who have produced new, field-defining research into the history of Black higher education. Connecting findings and implications from Linda Perkins’ To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s (University of Illinois Press) and Crystal R. Sanders’ A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (University of North Carolina Press), the moderators and audience will engage the authors to understand the challenges facing Black Americans in their pursuit of higher education in both the past and present, with lessons for today’s educational leaders and researchers hoping to achieve the equitable possibilities of American colleges and universities.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Michael S. Hevel, University of Arkansas

• Keon M. McGuire, North Carolina State University

Participants

• Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University

• Crystal R. Sanders, Emory University

Moderator

• James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Cally L. Waite, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, University of Wisconsin - Madison