New Directions in Black Educational History

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium engages global perspectives into the critical study of Black educational history, by reconstructing underexplored histories of marginalized historical actors, institutions and geographies. Utilizing often submerged and forgotten archival materials in case studies from British Guiana, the United States, and Britain, the symposium explores the historical and intellectual connections that have shaped Black education across diverse contexts. We find that Black education served as a transnational site for resistance against racial domination. Our findings highlight the interconnected nature of Black educational histories and their role in cultivating the shared diasporic consciousness that ripples throughout the racialized Anglo-Atlantic world. Consequently, we highlight the need for further exploration of Black educational history as a transnational phenomenon through the practice of recovery.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• kihana miraya ross, Northwestern University

Papers

• New Geographies of Black Education: Literacy in the 1823 Demerara Rebellion - Darien Dey, Harvard University

• Black School Spirit and Critical Archival Recovery at Kentucky’s First Black Public High School - Jordan Jackson-Collins, Harvard University

• A Critical History of Black Higher Education: Institutional Death and the Black College - Cassondra Hanna, Harvard University

• The Black Teacher in 19th Century Britain and its Empire - Esther Anfo-Whyte, Harvard University

Session Organizer

• Jordan Jackson-Collins, Harvard University

Discussant

• Zenzile Saharee Riddick, Northwestern University