Education as Freedom

Noel S. Anderson is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Haroon Kharem is assistant professor in the School of Education at Brooklyn College.

• Part 1 Introduction. Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and ActivismPart 2 Section I. From Bondage to Freedom: Early African American Educational Thought and ActivismChapter 3 Chapter 1. Medical Doctor, Integrationist, and Black Nationalist: Dr. James McCune Smith and the Dilemma of Antebellum Intellectual Black ActivistChapter 4 Chapter 2. John Mercer Langston and the Shaping of African American Education in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 5 Chapter 3. On Classical vs. Vocational Training: The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen BurroughsPart 6 Section II. This Skin I'm In: African American Identity and EducationChapter 7 Chapter 4. Womanist Conceptualizations of African-Centered Critical Multiculturalism: Creating New Possibilities of Thinking about Social JusticeChapter 8 Chapter 5. The Performance Gap: Stereotype Threat, Assessment, and the Education of African American ChildrenChapter 9 Chapter 6. Katherine Dunham: Decolonizing Dance EducationPart 10 Section III. Advancing the Race: African American Education and Social ProgressChapter 11 Chapter 7. Live the Truth: Politics and Pedagogy in the African-American Movement for Freedom and LiberationChapter 12 Chapter 8. Black Schools, White Schools: Derrick Bell, Race, and the Failure of the Integration Ideal in BrownChapter 13 Chapter 9. Research for Liberation: DuBois, the Chicago School, and the Development of Black Emancipatory Action Research

For African Americans, education has historically been a double-edged sword: it has been used both as a source of oppression and of liberation. In Education as Freedom, Anderson and Kharem lay out a set of strategies and a framework that can be used by educators, scholars, and activists to utilize education as the foundation for the freedom struggle in the twenty first century and beyond. This book is an insightful and inspiring resource.