TY  - BOOK
AU  - Epps-Robertson,Candace
TI  - Resisting Brown: race, literacy, and citizenship in the heart of Virginia 
T2  - Composition, literacy, and culture
SN  - 9780822986454
AV  - LC212.522.V8 
U1  - 379.2/6309755632 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Prince Edward County Free School Association (Va.)
KW  - School integration
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Prince Edward County
KW  - Segregation in education
KW  - Public schools
KW  - Racism in education
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Free schools
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Administration
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Educational Policy & Reform
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Prince Edward County (Va.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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 from 1959 until 1964. The only formal education available for those locked out of school came in 1963 when the combined efforts of Prince Edward's African American community and aides from President John F. Kennedy's administration established the Prince Edward County Free School Association (Free School). This temporary school system would serve just over 1,500 students, both black and white, aged 6 through 23. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Resisting Brown presents the Free School as a site in which important rhetorical work took place. Candace Epps-Robertson analyzes public discourse that supported the school closures as an effort and manifestation of citizenship and demonstrates how the establishment of the Free School can be seen as a rhetorical response to white supremacist ideologies. The school's mission statements, philosophies, and commitment to literacy served as arguments against racialized constructions of citizenship. Prince Edward County stands as a microcosm of America's struggle with race, literacy, and citizenship"--Publisher's description
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