Schooling Citizens : The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America /

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to blac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moss, Hilary J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
African Americans > Education.
Discrimination in education > United States > USA > Schwarze > United States.
Discrimination in education > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
Racism > History > 19th century > United States.
Racism > United States > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
african american, black, antebellum, time period, era, history, historical, 1800s, educational, education, teaching, teacher, boston, new haven, coastal, east, america, united states, usa, slave, slavery, comparison, public, academic, scholarly, research, textbook, college, university, 1830s, children, ethnicity, race, racism, white, opportunity, inequality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Education's Inequity: New Haven, Connecticut
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Emergence of White Opposition to African American Education
  • Chapter 2. Interracial Activism and African American Higher Education
  • II. Education's Enclave: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 3. Race, Labor, and Literacy in a Slaveholding City
  • Chapter 4. African American Educational Activism under the Shadow of Slavery
  • III. Education's Divide: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 5. Race, Space, and Educational Opportunity
  • Chapter 6. Common Schools, Revolutionary Memory, and the Crisis of Black Citizenship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  • Conclusion: The Great Equalizer?
  • Appendix 1: Index of Occupational Categories
  • Appendix 2: Name, Occupation, and Address of Identifiable Petitioners Opposing the Proposal to Build a School for Black Children on Southack Street
  • Notes
  • Index

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