Sublime

The Mis-Education of the Negro

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of theUnited States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War

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“Black culture traditionally hasn’t told you to be smart in school and to work hard, because your effort would benefit the slave-owner, not you.”

Winifred Gallagher • Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,

Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.