Items related to Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S....

Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s (Studies in African American History and Culture) - Hardcover

Murdy, Anne-Elizabeth

 
9780415935340: Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s (Studies in African American History and Culture)

Synopsis

Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s, Murdy proves that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected and argues that their current lives must be regarded as mutually dependent. Teach the Nation offers a new understanding of literacy and pedagogical study and identifies how literary history enhances current feminist and anti-racist teachings. By excavating notions about education in the 1890s-as turbulent a time for American public education as today-Murdy asks readers to step back from this historical moment to better understand the contexts and institutions within which we theorize learning and teaching. In doing so, she compels readers to reimagine the potential for gaining social power through education and literature.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Anne-Elizabeth Murdy

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Public Education and the Properties of Young People

WORK CONSULTED

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.