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Scholars Convocation: Black Reconstructions: Archival Assembly and the History of African American E

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Event Type: Announcement
Location: Grinnell College, JRC Room 101, 1115 8th Ave., Grinnell, IA 50112
Time: Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Categories: Lectures & Talks

Event Description:

Professor Givens will explore why the violence of the archive is a pressing matter for the field of education research. He will also discuss his work on reconstructing the life-worlds of African American teachers and students during the 19th and 20th centuries, while focusing particularly on what he calls "archival assembly," a methodological approach he employs to disrupt racialized gaps and silences in the historical record. This mode of black (historical) study is essential for achieving a more expansive vision of the educational past and futures.

Jarvis R. Givens is a professor of Education and African & African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness and Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, and he is also the co-founding director of the Black Teacher Archive. 

 

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