The Black Intellectual Tradition by Derrick P. Alridge

In 2020, he was the Tisch Visiting Scholar at Teachers College and delivered the Tisch Lecture. In 20, Education Week listed him among the top 200 most influential scholars in education.

Woodson Medallion from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. In 2021, Alridge was a recipient of the Carter G. He is a former president of the History of Education Society, and has served as a co-chair of Virginia’s Commission on African American History Education in the Commonwealth. He is a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, former postdoctoral fellow of the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation, and currently serves as a distinguished lecturer for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He is the founding director of the Center for Race and Public Education in the South and principal investigator of the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. Gibson Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Alridge, a former middle and high school social studies and history teacher, serves as the Philip J. Evans, Aaron David Gresson III, Claudrena N. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberation.Įxpansive in scope and interdisciplinary in practice, The Black Intellectual Tradition delves into the ideas that animated a people’s striving for full participation in American life.Ĭontributors: Derrick P. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals performers and protest activists institutions and organizations and educators and religious leaders. Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thoughtįrom 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world.

The Black Intellectual Tradition by Derrick P. Alridge