Teach Freedom : Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition

by Payne, Charles M.; Strickland, Carol Sills; Cobb, Charles E., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780807748732
• ISBN10: 0807748730
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-21
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

The self-conscious use of education as an instrument of liberation among African Americans is exactly as old as education among African Americans. This dynamic anthology is about those forms of education intended to help people think more critically about the social forces shaping their lives and think more confidently about their ability to react against those forces. Featuring articles by educator-activists, this collection explores the largely forgotten history of attempts by African Americans to use education as a tool of collective liberation. Together these articles explore the variety of forms those attempts have taken, from the shadow of slavery to the contradictions of hip-hop. Contributors address "Lessons from the Past" and discuss Citizenship Schools in the south, Ella Baker and the Harlem Y, Mississippi Freedom Schools, and Black Panther Liberation Schools. Contemporary models are covered as well, demonstrating the depth and tenacity of the tradition in such efforts as the Freedom Schools established by the Children's Defense Fund

Table of Contents

Foreword: Full Circle
Introduction	p. 1
Projecting Imagination Beyond Circumstance
To Build a New Jerusalem	p. 15
"We Are Rising as a People": The Content of Instruction in Freedmen's School	p. 19
Building the Army of Democracy
The Birth of the Citizenship Schools: Entwining the Struggles for Literacy and Freedom	p. 25
"They Walk, Talk, and Act Like New People": Citizenship Education Program in Southeastern Georgia, 1960-1975	p. 42
"Give Light and the People Will Find a Way": Ella Baker and Teaching as Politics	p. 56
The 1960s: From Freedom to Liberation
Prospectus for a Summer Freedom School Program	p. 67
Organizing Freedom Schools	p. 69
Freedom, Liberation, Accommodation: Politics and Pedagogy in SNCC and the Black Panther Party	p. 75
Minds Still Stayed on Freedom? Reflections on Politics, Consensus, and Pedagogy in the African American Freedom Struggle	p. 95
"The World Is a Child's Classroom": An Analysis of the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School	p. 100
Sankofa: Looking Back to Look Forward-Contemporary Expressions of Education for Liberation
My Sister, My Brother, Myself: Critical Exploration of Sexism and Misogyny at the Brotherhood/Sister Sol	p. 117
And Who Gets to Define "Freedom"? An Exchange on the Sunflower County Freedom Project - May-June 2005	p. 130
Project Daniel: A Church-Based Enrichment Program of Liberation for African American Boys	p. 150
"Freedom Is a Constant Struggle": The Story of the Bushwick School for Social Justice and Make the Road by Walking	p. 159
The Black Student Leadership Network's Summer Freedom School Program	p. 177
The P-O-W-E-R of Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools	p. 191
Emancipatory Education Versus School-Based Violence Prevention	p. 201
Profile of an Independent Black Institution: African-Centered Education at Work	p. 208
Rebel Musics: African Diaspora Popular Culture and Critical Literacy Pedagogies	p. 222
Afterword	p. 235
References	p. 237
About the Editors and the Contributors	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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