Books by Joyce E. King

Black Education / Preparing Teachers for Cultural Diversity / Teaching Diverse Populations

 Black Mothers to Sons: Juxtaposing African American Literature with Social Practice.

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Joyce King  Responds

to Black IT Uses & Cyberspace

Hi Rudy,

For a curriculum project that I am working on I am reading several new publications on John Brown. Now, that Kansas battle over slavery was a "frontier" if there ever was one—which in the American tradition seems also to mean: battleground.  It seems that we are in that kind of "time" again: which way will this country and the world go? Slavery or freedom? I just learned from one of these biographers that the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was written in honor of John Brown.  As a young girl I used to sing that song in church ("trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. . ." ) and I never knew the meaning of the song until just today. Ah, well.  

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Metaphorically, John Brown also represents the tradition of radical allies (Black/white /Indian) fighting ("with that terrible" sword) for the moral high ground. It's precisely in that sense that I also "feel" your IT piece.

Black Commentator would be a great place for it. I think Kalamu ya Salaam is right about digital incursions that the youth have also been making in the music—so it's worth making that change.  Also, did you know that a Nigerian scientist, who now lives in the US, who is married to a sister—also a scientist, is credited with being “a Father of the Internet”? You should look at his website: http://www.emeagwali.com/index1.shtml. (Today I discovered that Emeagwali has at least one intrepid “detractor”—another Nigerian. . .who has posted very critical comments about his claims and reputation. Too bad.)

When you think through what might go up on your website about our new book (Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century), consider the "Declaration of Intellectual Independence" in Chapter 2—which includes "Ten Vital Principles of Black Education and Socialization." 

One of the sisters who contributed to the book is convinced that we need to lead with that.  That is, we can go to the heart of the book's message: Black intellectuals must lead from our own beginnings (as part of the African family) if we are to be free and do anything to free our people and humanity.

So I would start the blurb on ChickenBones with the Ayi Kwei Armah quote at the end of the Afterword and then present the "Declaration"—Ten principles and the articles described in Chapter 2. But let me know what you think after you've read my chapters (Introduction, and Ch 1 & 2) at least.

While these books about John Brown are far more revealing about the real John Brown (not the crazy lunatic portrayed in textbooks), I find it interesting that these new biographies of Brown seem also to be trying to "multiculturalize" him—whiten up his cause.  On the other hand, in his book on John Brown, Du Bois keeps it on the black hand side.

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John Brown By W. E. B. Du Bois The mystic spell of Africa is and ever was over all America. It has guided her hardest work, inspired her finest literature, and sung her sweetest songs. Her greatest destiny—unsensed and despised though it be,—is to give back to the first of continents the gifts which Africa of old gave to America’s fathers’ fathers. Of all inspiration which America owes to Africa, however; the greatest by far is the score of heroic men whom the sorrows of these dark children called to unselfish devotion and heroic self-realization: Benezet, Garrison, and Harriet Stowe; Sumner, Douglass and Lincoln—these and others, but above all, John Brown.

John Brown was a stalwart, rough-hewn man, mightily yet tenderly carven. To his making went the stern justice of a Cromwellian “Ironside,” the freedom-loving fire of a Welsh Celt, and the thrift of a Dutch housewife. And these very things it was—thrift, freedom, and justice—that early crossed the unknown seas to find asylum in America. Yet they came late, for before them came greed, and greed brought black slaves from Africa.—Du Bois, John Brown (excerpt)

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Dr. Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning, and Leadership in the College of Education at Georgia State University.  The former Provost and Professor of Education at Spelman College, King is recognized here and abroad for her contributions to the field of education. In addition to Black Education, a publication which she edited, Dr. King has published three other books –Preparing Teachers for Cultural Diversity, Teaching Diverse Populations and Black Mothers to Sons: Juxtaposing African American Literature with Social Practice.

She has published many articles as well that address the role of cultural knowledge in effective teaching and teacher preparation, black teachers’ emancipatory pedagogy, research methods, black studies epistemology and curriculum change. King is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in social foundations and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. She also holds a certificate from the Harvard Institute in educational management.Click to purchase Black Education. There is also a video documentary

posted 27 June 2008

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Zippety Doo Dah, Zippety-Ay How Satisfactch'll Is Education Today?  Toward a New Song of the South Dr. Joyce E. King on Black Education and New Paradigms   photo: Joyce King and Leonard Jeffries

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Men We Love, Men We Hate SAC writings from Douglass, McDonogh 35, and McMain high schools in New Orleans. An anthology on the topic of men and relationships with men Ways of Laughing An Anthology of Young Black Voices Photographed & Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam

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The State of African Education (April 200)

Attack On Africans Writing Their Own History Part 1 of 7

Dr Asa Hilliard III speaks on the assault of academia on Africans writing and accounting for their own history.

Dr Hilliard is A teacher, psychologist, and historian.

Part 2 of 7  /  Part 3 of 7  / Part 4 of 7  / Part 5 of 7 / Part 6 of 7  /  Part 7 of 7

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Basil Davidson obituary—By Victoria Brittain—9 July 2010—Davidson [(9 November 1914 – 9 July 2010) a British historian, writer and Africanist] was enthused early on by the end of British colonialism and the prospects of pan-Africanism in the 1960s, and he wrote copiously and with warmth about newly independent Ghana and its leader, Kwame Nkrumah. He went to work for a year at the University of Accra in 1964. Later he threw himself into the reporting of the African liberation wars in the Portuguese colonies, particularly in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. . . . In the 1980s, with most of the African liberation wars now won—except for South Africa's— Davidson turned much of his attention to more theoretical questions about the future of the nation state in Africa. He remained a passionate advocate of pan-Africanism. In 1988 he made a long and dangerous journey into Eritrea, writing a persuasive defence of the nationalists' right to independence from Ethiopia, and an equally eloquent attack on the revolutionary leader Colonel Mengistu and the regime that had overthrown Haile Selassie. Guardian

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Basil Davidson's  "Africa Series"

 Different But Equal  /  Mastering A Continent  /  Caravans of Gold  / The King and the City / The Bible and The Gun

West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850

By Basil Davidson

African Slave Trade: Precolonial History, 1450-1850

By Basil Davidson

John Henrik Clarke—A Great and Mighty Walk

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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America By Melissa V. Harris-Perry According to the author, this society has historically exerted considerable pressure on black females to fit into one of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the Matriarch or the Jezebel.  The selfless Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.      Professor Perry points out how the propagation of these harmful myths have served the mainstream culture well. For instance, the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for black females to feel a maternal instinct towards Caucasian babies. As for the source of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their own bodies during slavery given that they were being auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless, it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate indiscriminately.

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Sex at the Margins Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry By Laura María Agustín This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London

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The White Masters of the World

From The World and Africa, 1965

By W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization (Fletcher)

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Ancient African Nations

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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan  /  The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll  /  Only a Pawn in Their Game

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for Slavery / George Jackson  / Hurricane Carter

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The Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804  / January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of Haiti 

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update 5 August 2010