Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: A New Grammar for Black Education vii
4. Introduction: Blackness and the Art of Teaching 1
5. 1. Between Coffle and Classroom: Carter G. Woodson as a Student and Teacher, 1875–1912 26
6. 2. “The Association . . . Is Standing Like the Watchman on the Wall”: Fugitive Pedagogy and Black Institutional Life 62
7. 3. A Language We Can See a Future In: Black Educational Criticism as Theory in Its Own Right 93
8. 4. The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Curricular Imaginations: Constructing New Scripts of Knowledge 126
9. 5. Fugitive Pedagogy as a Professional Standard: Woodson’s “Abroad Mentorship” of Black Teachers 159
10. 6. “Doomed to Be Both a Witness and a Participant”: The Shared Vulnerability of Black Students and Black Teachers 199
11. Conclusion: Black Schoolteachers and the Origin Story of Black Studies 229
12. Notes 243
13. Acknowledgments 295
14. Index 299