Resisting Brown : race, literacy, and citizenship in the heart of Virginia /

"Many localities in America resisted integration in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education rulings (1954, 1955). Virginia's Prince Edward County stands as perhaps the most extreme. Rather than fund integrated schools, the county's board of supervisors closed public schools f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epps-Robertson, Candace (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press [2018]
Series:Composition, literacy, and culture
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv7fmfwd
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : a genealogy through stories
  • Introduction : the power, possibility, and peril in histories of literacy
  • Rhetoric, race, and citizenship in the heart of Virginia
  • Manufacturing and responding to white supremacist ideology in the "Virginia way"
  • "Teaching must be our way of demonstrating!" Institutional design against white supremacy
  • Free School students speak
  • Pomp and circumstance : the legacy of the Prince Edward County Free School Association for contemporary literacy theory and pedagogy.