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Jarvis R. Givens

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  • African American students and teacher in a classroom, Henderson, KY, 1916.

    The Origin Story of Black Education

    As Frederick Douglass’s master put it, a slave who learned to read and write against the will of his master was tantamount to “running away with himself.”
    by Jarvis R. Givens via Harvard University Press Blog on February 1, 2022
  • A second grade teacher and her students pledge allegiance to the flag circa 1970.

    Is There an Uncontroversial Way to Teach America’s Racist History?

    A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.
    by Jarvis R. Givens, Sean Illing via Vox on June 11, 2021
  • Black children learning in a classroom

    What’s Missing From the Discourse About Anti-Racist Teaching

    Black educators have always known that their students are living in an anti-Black world and that their teaching must be set against the order of that world.
    by Jarvis R. Givens via The Atlantic on May 21, 2021
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Children learning about Thanksgiving, with model log cabin on table, Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia circa 1900.

Fugitive Pedagogy

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
by Lydialyle Gibson via Harvard Magazine on February 11, 2022
Cliff Joseph's art, Blackboard, 1969. One adult and one young Black person stand in front of a blackboard.

The Long War on Black Studies

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via New York Review of Books on June 17, 2023
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