Racist Representation
This phrase describes how African Americans were erased, stereotyped, or marginalized in curriculum history.
What is racist representation?
African American educators used this type of uplift to counter racist stereotypes.
What is racial uplift?
He emphasized industrial education as a path for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This period, considered the low point of U.S. race relations after Reconstruction, shaped African American education
What is the Nadir?
Au, Brown, and Calderon call their work this because it rewrites curriculum history
What is a revisionist racial project?
When Black people did appear in children’s books, they were often represented with these kinds of stereotypes.
What are racist caricatures (lazy, servile, comical, etc.)?
This journal, founded at Howard University in 1932, was a major site of resistance and intellectual exchange.
What is The Journal of Negro Education?
He argued for liberal education and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
During segregation, Black schools often had fewer resources but stronger connections to this.
What is the Black community?
The revisionist project reframes African American curriculum thought as this to the field.
What is central?
Black curriculum thought was often labeled as this, rather than central to educational theory.
What is “special interest” or “secondary”?
Black intellectuals theorized education not just for skills but for this broader purpose.
What is liberation?
Called the “Father of Black History,” he wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
The Great Migration impacted education as Black families moved to these areas
What are Northern and urban cities?
Including Black voices in curriculum history transforms this field of study.
What is curriculum studies?
These racist portrayals in literature reinforced the larger system of this in schools and society
What is white supremacy?
Du Bois’s emphasis on the “Talented Tenth” was a strategy for this collective goal.
What is leadership and racial progress?
This philosopher promoted cultural pluralism and connected education to the arts.
Who is Alain Locke?
The 1954 Supreme Court decision that struck down “separate but equal” schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Revisionist history challenges this assumption about who defines legitimate knowledge.
What is that only white, mainstream educators are the authority?
Racist representation impacted what counted as this in the U.S. education system.
What is knowledge/curriculum?
African American curriculum history reframed knowledge itself as a tool for this.
What is freedom/justice?
These three scholars authored African American Curriculum History: A Revisionist Racial Project.
Who are Wayne Au, Anthony L. Brown, and Dolores Calderon?
African American educators built intellectual traditions during this century despite systemic barriers.
What is the 20th century?
The legacy of revisionist work is that African American curriculum thought is not “add-on” but this.
What is foundational?