Resisting Brown : race, literacy, and citizenship in the heart of Virginia / Candace Epps-Robertson.

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Epps-Robertson, Candace [author.]

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TextSeries: Composition, literacy, and culturePublisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xv, 148 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780822986454
0822986450

Other title:

Race, literacy, and citizenship in the heart of Virginia

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Resisting Brown.DDC classification:

379.2/6309755632 23

LOC classification:

LC212.522.V8

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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.

Summary: "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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"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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