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Document Type
Book Chapter
Department/Program
Education
Publication Date
2006
Book Title
Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s Children Got a Song
Publisher
Routledge
Editor
Dixson, A. D. & Rousseau, C. K.
Edition
1st
First Page
153
Last Page
163
Abstract
"African American parental involvement in education is inextricably linked with improving the political and economic standing of their children. In The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, James Anderson (1988} chronicles the efforts of ex-slaves to "establish schools for their own children" (p. 15). According to Anderson {1988), the Negroes, labors were grounded in the "belief that education could help raise freed people to an appreciation of their historic responsibility to develop a better society and that any significant reorganization of the southern political economy was indissolubly linked to their education in the principles, duties, and obligations appropriate to a democratic social order,, (p. 28)..."
ISBN
9780415952927
Recommended Citation
Donnor, Jamel K., "Parent(s): The Biggest Influence in the Education of African- American Football Student-Athletes" (2006). School of Education Book Chapters. 17.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/educationbookchapters/17
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