Black Protest Thought and Education

The Editor: Born in Harlem, New York, and raised in south-central Los Angeles, William H. Watkins received his Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis-Education from University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of Utah and University of Illinois at Chicago. Watkins is the author of The White Architects of Black Education (2001), numerous book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, and contributions to the mass media, as well as lead editor of Race and Education (2001). Additionally, Watkins has presented over fifty academic papers throughout the United States, Africa, Cuba, Asia, Europe, Canada, and Mexico.

• Contents: James D. Anderson: Foreword – William H. Watkins: Introduction – Sandra Richards/Sidney J. Lemelle: Pedagogy, Politics, and Power. Antinomies of the Black Radical Tradition – Daniel Perlstein: Minds Stayed on Freedom. Politics and Pedagogy in the African American Freedom Struggle – Haroon Kharem/Eileen M. Hayes: Separation or Integration. Early Black Nationalism and the Education Critique – Annette Henry: Black-Feminist Pedagogy. Critiques and Contributions – William H. Watkins: A Marxian and Radical Reconstructionist Critique of American Education. Searching Out Black Voices – Joy Ann Williamson: Community Control with a Black Nationalist Twist. The Black Panther Party’s Educational Programs – Beverly M. Gordon: Leadership, the Cultural Other, and Education in the New Millennium – Dionne Danns: Chicago Teacher Reform Efforts and the Politics of Educational Change – David Stovall: Critical Race Theory as Educational Protest. Power and Praxis.