Upcoming Events at Autherine Lucy Hall
Thu Oct 20, 5:00 PM - Thu Oct 20, 6:15 PM
Autherine Lucy Hall
900-928 University Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Community: Tuscaloosa
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A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education.
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A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education.Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”―a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. Teachers developed covert instructional strategies, creative responses to the persistence of White opposition. From slavery through the Jim Crow era, Black people passed down this educational heritage.
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