Descripción
Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators' and organizations' quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black people's thinking about education prior to and through enslavement to the present. It documents a variety of critical accounts of how Black people have developed ways to free themselves mentally from the legacies of slavery, the view of Black inferiority, and historical and systemic racism.
Author: Ronald E. Chennault
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 07/14/2026
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781978829985
ISBN10: 1978829981
BISAC Categories:
- Education | History
- Social Science | Cultural & Ethnic Studies | African American & Black Studies
- Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
About the Author
RONALD E. CHENNAULT is an associate professor in the College of Education at DePaul University. He is a coeditor of White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America (1998) and is the author of Hollywood Films About Schools: Where Race, Politics, and Education Intersect (2006) and of Anti-Public: How Elite Discourse Harms Public Education (Rutgers University Press, 2026).
DERRICK P. ALRIDGE is the Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (2008) and a coeditor of The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (2021) and Message in the Music: Hip-Hop History and Pedagogy (2010). He has also served as president of the History of Education Society.