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Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)

New Books in Education

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Struggles for Literacy and Freedom

This chapter examines how literacy served as a critical dividing line between freedom and oppression for Black individuals from the early 1800s to the post-Reconstruction era. It also addresses themes of censorship and propaganda, linking historical struggles for education to contemporary issues of equality and access to knowledge.

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