| Contents |
"School clothes" and the Black vernacular -- Living and learning behind the veil -- Going to school north of slavery -- Becoming fugitive learners -- Learning and striving in the afterlife of slavery -- Reading in the dark : becoming Black literate subjects -- A singing school for justice -- Some of them became schoolteachers -- Hieroglyphics of the Black student body. |
| Abstract |
"Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Jarvis Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines. He details the educational lives of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison; political leaders like Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis; and Black students whose names are largely unknown but who left their marks nonetheless. Givens blends this multitude of individual voices into a single narrative, a collective memoir, to reveal a through line shared across time and circumstance: a story of African American youth learning to battle the violent condemnation of Black life and imposed miseducation meant to quell their resistance"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Givens, Jarvis R. School clothes Boston : Beacon Press, 2023 9780807054741 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022043505 |
| ISBN | 9780807054819 hardcover |
| ISBN | 080705481X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
