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History of Education in the News: The Legacy of Slavery, Racism, and Contemporary Black Activism on Campus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James D. Anderson  and
Christopher M. Span
James D. Anderson
Affiliation:
College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher M. Span
Affiliation:
Education Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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History of Education Quarterly editorial team is planning to integrate a new feature, “History of Education in the News,” into periodic issues of the journal. Our idea is to highlight relevant historical scholarship on a topic that has contemporary public resonance. Our first piece in this new vein engages the current uptick of interest in the links between slavery and higher education. Recent scholarship and popular press accounts have documented how many eastern colleges and universities benefited from enslaved African-American labor.

We asked Professors James D. Anderson and Christopher M. Span of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to take up this issue and reflect on how a deep knowledge of history informs recent activism on college and university campuses, particularly activism focused on forcing institutions to reckon with their histories and become antiracist spaces.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , November 2016 , pp. 646 - 656
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