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African American Women's Literature
African American Women’s Literature
African American Young People
American Education
Apparent Misfit
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Black Feminist Literary Criticism
Black Women's Club Movement
Black women's educational history
Black Women's Literature
Black Women’s Club Movement
Black Women’s Literature
Cam
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Central Park East Secondary School
Chicago Public High Schools
Chicago Public Schools
Colored Women's League
Colored Women’s League
Contending Forces
Cottage City
democratic education theory
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feminist pedagogy
Jim Crow Car
literacy and empowerment
nineteenth century women writers
Racial Uplift
Rail Road
Silver Fleece
social mobility education
Society's Formal Institutions
Society’s Formal Institutions
Vice Versa
Woman's Era Club
Woman’s Era Club
Women's Club Work
Women’s Club Work
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138983601
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s, Murdy proves that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected and argues that their current lives must be regarded as mutually dependent. Teach the Nation offers a new understanding of literacy and pedagogical study and identifies how literary history enhances current feminist and anti-racist teachings. By excavating notions about education in the 1890s-as turbulent a time for American public education as today-Murdy asks readers to step back from this historical moment to better understand the contexts and institutions within which we theorize learning and teaching. In doing so, she compels readers to reimagine the potential for gaining social power through education and literature.
