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Assignment:
1. First impressions of Chapter from Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching-What parts of the reading(s) did you find surprising, puzzling, useful, new, already knew, and interesting?
2. Explain the concept of Black educational criticism and its relation to fugitive pedagogy.
3. How does Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933) justify as a basis for a conceptual breakthrough in Black educational criticism?
4. What criticisms did Woodson assert in The Mis-Education of the Negro regarding the American school curriculum?
5. What was Woodson's major source of concern with what he called "highly educated" Negroes?
6. Explain Woodson's notion of appeal for a rigorous sight in Black education.
7. Describe the role of white paternalism and its effect in sustaining miseducation.
8. What was Woodson's conflict with white philanthropists concerning the development of an encyclopedia about Negro life and history?
9. What were the Western education curriculum practices of blacks of the African diaspora noted and observed by Woodson and his contemporaries beyond the United States and what did they suggest as an alternative?
10. In what ways have African Americans implemented a "fugitive spirit" in their efforts to create new scripts of knowledge regarding black education?
11. Explain how the first textbooks written by fugitive slaves indoctrinated the formalized practice of black people striving to rewrite the epistemological order and challenging antiblack foundations.
12. Describe how the fugitive slave as a folk hero became a cultural symbol that represented ideas and values shared by black educators.
13. Name and describe the five consistent and egregious assessments about black life and history that regularly appeared in the American official school curricula.
14. Explain how textbooks written by black educators such as Edward A. Johnson, Leila Amos Pendleton, and Cater G. Woodson formulated a concept of race vindicationism.
15. Name and describe the six recurrent themes in black teachers' textbooks in which race vindicationism manifested itself.
16. Essential message
17. Significance for African Americans and education
18. Points of agreement/dissension
19. Summary/closing