The following is a “conversation” between two of the most prominent and prolific African American scholars and intellectuals, bell hooks and Carter G. Woodson. Though their works were published more than 60 years apart, many of the issues Woodson addressed in his now-classic work, The Miseducation of the Negro, remain significant for African American intellectuals today. What is education? And what does is mean to truly “transgress” the boundaries of tradition?
Greene, J.P. (2002, November). Public school graduation rates in the United States (Civic Report No. 31). Manhattan: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research .
2.
hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York : Routledge.
3.
Hurston, Z.N. (1955, August). Court order can't make the races mix [Letter to the editor]. Orlando Sentinel. Available at http://www.lewrockwell.com/epstein/epstein15.html
4.
Mickelson, R.A. (2001). Subverting swan: First and second generation segregation in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. American Research Journal , 38(2), 215-252.
5.
Miller, K., Frost, W.G., Bruce, R.C., Frissell, H.B., Du Bois, W.E.B., & Merrill, J.G. (1905). From servitude to service. Boston: Unitarian Association, The University Press .
6.
Morgan, C.T. (1946). The fruit of this tree: The story of a great American college and its contribution to the education of a changing world. Berea, KY: Berea College.
7.
Peck, E. (1955). Berea's first century: 1855-1955. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
8.
Savage, C.J. (2001). Because we did more with less: The agency of African American teachers in Franklin, Tennessee, 1890-1967. Peabody Journal of Education, 76(2), 170-203.
9.
Smith, P.J. (1999). Looking beyond traditional educational paradigms: When old victims become new victimizers. Hamline Law Review , 23(1), 101-176.
10.
Woodson, C.G. (1990). The mis-education of the Negro. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. (Original work published 1933)
