The Mis-Education of the Negro
$32.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2023
Summary
The Mis-education of the Negro (1933) is Woodson’s most popular classic work of Black social criticism, drawing on history, theory, and memoir. As both student and teacher, Woodson witnessed distortions of Black life in the history and literature taught in schools and universities. He identified a relationship between these distortions in curriculum and the violence circumscribing Black life in the material world, declaring, “There would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.”<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143137467 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143137468 |
| Author: | Carter G. Woodson, Jarvis R. Givens, Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 15mm |
About The Author
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was the child and student of formerly enslaved people and the second African American to receive a PhD from Harvard, in 1912. He worked in public schools in West Virginia, the Philippines, and Washington, D.C., where he taught at the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915, the Journal of Negro History in 1916, and Negro History Week (now celebrated as Black History Month) in 1926.
Jarvis R. Givens (introduction) is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Givens earned his PhD in African American Studies from UC Berkeley and is the author of Fugitive Pedagogy- Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (2021), winner of the 2022 ASALH Book Prize.
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