Black Student Activism at Tuskegee in the 1960s
September 26, 2019
October 24, 2019
This talk examines the ways in which colonialism and anti-colonialism were intertwined and contested in one school – Tuskegee Institute – in the late 1960s. In that decade, Tuskegee students were in a contradictory position: as black people in a Black Belt county (Macon County, Alabama), they were treated as second-class subjects in the Jim Crow system, but as upwardly mobile students in a school with strong connections to the U.S. military, they were invited to participate in and benefit from imperial and colonial enterprises.
Knowledge and Values in Citizenship Education
September 26, 2019
Pietr Van Rees will present his fulbright-supported research on intellectual debates among Teachers College faculty dealing with citizenship education throughout the twentieth century, looking at publications in Teachers College Record and Teaching and Research activities at Teachers College.