Black Reconstructions: Archival Assembly & Histories of American Education.

3401 Walnut Street,Philadelphia PA 19104

22 February, 2023

Description

Jarvis R. Givens is an associate professor of education and African & African American studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press, 2021) and School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness (Beacon Press, February 2023). In partnership with Professor Imani Perry of Princeton University, he is building The Black Teacher Archive, a digital humanities project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and focused on preserving the political and intellectual legacy of black school teachers before 1970.