The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power

Professor Givens offers the term "fugitive pedagogy" to characterize African Americans' subversive traditions of teaching and learning from the slavery era through Jim Crow. Using the life of famed educator and historian Carter G. Woodson as a lens, Givens reveals an expansive world of African American teachers who cultivated dreams and aspiration in generations of students, despite a world order built on black subjection.