Liberation and Education: Historical Perspectives on Black Educational Thought

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers in this session will explore enduring questions about Black people’s thinking about education from enslavement to the present. In keeping with the AERA meeting theme, the papers will, in different ways, reclaim histories of Black educational thought, connect those histories to the current moment, and point toward possible future directions. Each paper in the session will fill holes in, extend ideas within, and introduce new thinking to the existing scholarship on Black educational thought. There is great value in studying Black educators and intellectuals of the past in order to provide insights to understanding the education of Black people in the present and to envisioning a more liberatory world to come.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chairs

• Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia

• Ronald E. Chennault, DePaul University

Papers

• Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Early Rise of Womanism - Traki L. Taylor, Bowie State University

• Mapping the Intellectual Genealogy of Carter Godwin Woodson - Lasana D. Kazembe, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Black Women’s Ideas, White Philanthropy: Developing the First Generation of Black Women Scholars and Artists - Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University

• Re-Narrating the Experiences of Black Women Leaders in the Academy - Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida; Talia Randa Esnard, University of the West Indies - St. Augustine; Maria Migueliz Valcarlos, Eastern New Mexico University

Session Organizer

• Ronald E. Chennault, DePaul University

Discussant

• Elizabeth Todd-Breland, University of Illinois at Chicago