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Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s

Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s

Murdy, Anne-Elizabeth

Hardcover

Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

General EducationGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0415935342
ISBN13: 9780415935340
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 20 2002
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.48
Language: English
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.

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