ABSTRACT

What does it mean to educate the Black student? How do education stakeholders committed to Black students and communities understand the role of teaching and teachers to help students meet education goals? In this analytical article, inspired by multiple traditions in Black intellectual thought, I explore how Black writers who write outside of education research discuss the teachers and teaching Black students need. I examine three pieces published between the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois’, commencement speech, “Diuturni Silenti,” writer and activist James Baldwin’s speech and essay, “A Talk to Teachers,” and education journalist Melinda D. Anderson’s, “Becoming a Teacher.” I argue that because these authors speak from a different standpoint than academic research traditionally engages, they present a unique historic and contemporary vision of teachers and teaching for Black students.

摘要

教育黑人学生意味着什么？致力于黑人学生和社区的教育利益相关者如何理解教学和老师在帮助学生实现教育目标方面的作用？在这篇分析性文章中，受黑人知识分子传统的启发，我探索了在教育研究之外写作的黑人作家如何讨论教师和黑人学生的教学需求。我考察了二十世纪中叶至二十一世纪初发表的三篇文章：社会学家WEB Du Bois的演讲，开幕演讲，“ Diuturni Silenti”，作家和激进主义者James Baldwin的演讲和随笔，“与教师交谈”以及教育记者。梅琳达·安德森（Melinda D. Anderson）的《成为一名老师》。我认为，由于这些作者的发言与传统上学术研究的立场不同，