Joe Turner · Shake, Rattle and Roll

This session takes us on a time warp back through 1954.  The chart-stopper is Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle & Roll" and the supreme court case, Brown v. Board of Education, et al, has swung in the favor of dismantling white supremacy... or so it seems.  70 years later though, the promise and possibility of Brown remains elusive if not altogether obstructed. 

Issues To Familiarize Yourself with/ Watch as Much as You Like:

​The title of this session is inspired by Mwalimu Shujaa's 1994 edited collection, Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education: A Paradox of Black Life in White Societies.  Shujaa argues for a distinction between schooling and education where school/schooling requires compliance and complacency with the nation-state and white supremacy.  For Shujaa, the reproduction of an oppressive social order is simply not EDUCATION.  We center Shujaa's argument in our understanding of Brown: it gave us schooling, but not education.

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People in this country have grown comfortable and accustomed to living racially segregated lives. We live in segregated neighborhoods. We worship in segregated churches and mosques. We work in segregated professions. We receive unequal health care, banking and loan, and other social services. Why wouldn't we receive segregated and inequitable schooling? Schooling is merely a symptom of our larger experience. BROWN is an ideal that America has embraced in theory but not in reality. After 30 years of writing about BROWN, I have concluded that we are content to commemorate the decision but not commit to its principles.

~Gloria Ladson-Billings

What We're Reading...

MANDATORY: “Brown at 70: Commitment or Commemoration” by Gloria Ladson-Billings

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And choose ONE of these...

1. "‘Black Crisis’ and the ‘Likely’ Privatization of Public Education
   in New Orleans and Liberia" by Mahasan Offutt-Chaney
2. "Brown as a Cold War Case" by Mary L. Dudziak
3. "The Brown Decision Revisited: Mathematizing Social Problems" by William F. Tate, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Carl A. Grant
4. ​"Daisy Bates and the Little Rock School Crisis: Forging the Way" by Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and Thurmon Garner
5. "Can We At Least Have Plessy? The Struggle for Quality Education" by Gloria Ladson-Billings
6. "The Displacement of Black Educators Post-Brown: An Overview and Analysis" by Michael Fultz
7. “The Distributions of Whiteness” by Roderick Ferguson (based on his book, The Reorder of Things: The University and its Pedagogies of Minority Difference)
8. "The Effects of the Brown Decision on Black educators" by James Haney
9. "Eroding Integration: 21st Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise
   of Brown" by Erica Frankenberg, Caprial Farrington, Elizabeth H. DeBray, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Talia Leibovitz, Sarah McCollum, Janelle Scott, and Kathryn A. McDermott
10. “Hell Is Popping Here in South Carolina”: Orangeburg County Black Teachers and Their Community in the Immediate Post-Brown Era" by Candace Cunningham
11. "Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics: Anti-Blackness and Higher Education in the Black Lives Matter Era" by T. Elon Dancy, II, Kirsten Edwards, and James Earl Davis
12. "The Invisible Tax: Exploring Black Student Engagement at Historically White Institutions" by Jarvis Givens
13. ​"Landing on the Wrong Note: The Price We Paid for Brown" by Gloria Ladson-Billings
14. "Moving Beyond Celebration: Challenging Curricular Orthodoxy in the Teaching of Brown and Its Legacies" by Diana Hess
15. "Our Forgotten Mother: Daisy Bates and Her School Integration Campaign" by Monique Freemona and Lori Amber Roessner
16. "The Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is an Attempt to Whitewash U.S. History Banning Discussion of Race Makes It Impossible to Discuss the Past Accurately" by Kimberlé Crenshaw
17. "​Race, Residential Segregation, and the Death of Democracy Education and Myth of Postracialism" by Lori Latrice Martin and Kenneth J. Varner
18. "School Desegregation as Multi-generational Narratives of
    Afropessimism" by Loyce Caruthers, Jennifer Friend, and Candace Schlein
19. "Shadows of Plessy v. Ferguson: The Dichotomy of Progress Toward Educational Equity Since 1954" by Shetay Ashford-Hanserd, Stephen B. Springer, Mary-Patricia Hayton and Kelly E. Williams
20. "Speaking Barbara: Poetry and Historical Ethnographic Fiction" by Glenn Allen Phillips
21. "Still Separate, Still Unequal: The Relation of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools to Education Inequality" by Odis Johnson, Jr.
22. "Suffering in New Jim Crow Schools: Under the Cover of Diversity in Post-Brown Education" by Matthew Davis
23. "Unearthing and Bequeathing Black Feminist Legacies of Brown to a New Generation of Women and Girls" by Tondra L. Loder-Jackson, Lois McFadyen Christensen and Hilton Kelly 

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Our Black
Canons/Cannons​

Black Teachers on Teaching 
​by Michele Foster
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Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South
by Vanessa Siddle Walker
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Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement: A First Person Narrative
by Septima Clark

Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South
by Vanessa Siddle Walker

The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

With More Deliberate Speed: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Education-- Realizing the Full Potential of Brown v. Board of Education
​edited by Arnetha Ball