Black Folk and Education: Problems and Prospects

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This paper session will feature three papers on education and Black people. One paper will focus on the relation between Black historiography and educational development. A second paper will examine the ever changing demand for appropriate education and capital investment in Africa and the Diaspora. A third paper will examine the education of Black people between 1940 and 2010 in the United States of America with special reference to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Sub Unit

• 102nd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Individual Presentations

• Black Historiography, Education, and “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood” - Tracy Flemming, Grand Valley State University

• Education, Rapidly Changing Dynamics, and the Pan African World - George Morris, Contra Costa College

• Protracted Struggle, Protracted Crisis, and Black Education, 1940-2010: A Research Note on Educational Attainment and Empirical Data in the United States of America - J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Commentator

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