Christopher M Span
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher M Span |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher M |
| FAMILY NAME | Span |
| SIGNATURE | SPAN C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4691-3775 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sam's Cottonfield Blues
This History of Education Society Presidential Address primarily utilizes evocative autoethnography and narrative inquiry to convey its main points. It is written in the storytelling tradition of the African American past and analyzes the lives of three generations of Black Mississippians as they navigated life in Jim Crow Mississippi. It highlights the impact and legacy the cotton economy had on the life opportunities of these Black Mississippia…
History of Education in the News
History of Education Quarterly editorial team is planning to integrate a new feature, “History of Education in the News,” into periodic issues of the journal. Our idea is to highlight relevant historical scholarship on a topic that has contemporary public resonance. Our first piece in this new vein engages the current uptick of interest in the links between slavery and higher education. Recent scholarship and popular press accounts have documente…
Post-Slavery? Post-Segregation? Post-Racial? A History of the Impact of Slavery, Segregation, and Racism on the Education of African Americans
This chapter details how slavery, segregation, and racism impacted the educational experiences of African Americans from the colonial era to the present. It offers a historical overview of the African American educational experience and uses archival data and secondary source analysis to illustrate that America has yet to be a truly post-slavery and post-segregation society, let alone a post-racial society.
Reflections from Within
Before we expound on our brief “farewell” essay, we wish to extend our deepest gratitude to those colleagues who contributed as authors, reviewers, associate editors, and editorial board members in sustaining the high quality of scholarship in the history of education. You have been indispensable in this process. I hope you realize the extent to which your role as reviewers serves as a means of mentoring, in contributing to the development of a c…
Hands on the Freedom Plow
Book Review| July 01 2013 Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 656 pp. Photographs. $34.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Christopher M. Span Christopher M. Span Search for other work…
Because of Race
Book Review| January 01 2011 Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools. By Mica Pollock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xviii + 277 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $29.95 (cloth). Christopher M. Span Christopher M. Span University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse
This book examines Mississippi's politics and policies of post Civil War racial education. The primary debate centered on whether schools for African Americans should seek to develop Blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. African Americans envisioned schools established by and for themselves as a primary means of achieving independence, equality, political empowerment, and some degree of…
The Quest for“Book Learning”
This chapter contains sections titled: A Review of the Historiography of African American Education before and after the Civil War
Gregory J. W. Urwin, Black Flag over Dixie
Black Milwaukee’s Challenge to the Cycle of Urban Miseducation
Milwaukee’s two African American Immersion schools—public schools that infused African and African American themes into the state’s prescribed curriculum—officially opened in 1990 and 1991. Inner-city African American residents and school officials in Milwaukee prompted the call for their establishment. It was hoped that these African-centered schools would serve as a model for the city’s public school system to effectively combat the disparaging…
New and Important Contributions to the Educational History of African Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans
Educational and Social Reforms for African American Juvenile Delinquents in 19 th Century New York City and Philadelphia
This article identifies some of the earliest known examples of juvenile justice for African American juvenile delinquents in 19th century New York City and Philadelphia. It extends our understanding and raises questions about the quality and type of reform African American youth accused of crime received in these cities and the early purposes of juvenile reformatories in urban American. Warwick was a funny kind of place. It was a jail in disguise…
I Must Learn Now or Not at All
History of Education in the News
History of Education Quarterly editorial team is planning to integrate a new feature, “History of Education in the News,” into periodic issues of the journal. Our idea is to highlight relevant historical scholarship on a topic that has contemporary public resonance. Our first piece in this new vein engages the current uptick of interest in the links between slavery and higher education. Recent scholarship and popular press accounts have documente…
Black Milwaukee’s Challenge to the Cycle of Urban Miseducation
Milwaukee’s two African American Immersion schools—public schools that infused African and African American themes into the state’s prescribed curriculum—officially opened in 1990 and 1991. Inner-city African American residents and school officials in Milwaukee prompted the call for their establishment. It was hoped that these African-centered schools would serve as a model for the city’s public school system to effectively combat the disparaging…
I Must Learn Now or Not at All
Hands on the Freedom Plow
Book Review| July 01 2013 Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 656 pp. Photographs. $34.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Christopher M. Span Christopher M. Span Search for other work…
Educational and Social Reforms for African American Juvenile Delinquents in 19 th Century New York City and Philadelphia
This article identifies some of the earliest known examples of juvenile justice for African American juvenile delinquents in 19th century New York City and Philadelphia. It extends our understanding and raises questions about the quality and type of reform African American youth accused of crime received in these cities and the early purposes of juvenile reformatories in urban American. Warwick was a funny kind of place. It was a jail in disguise…
Black Milwaukee’s Challenge to the Cycle of Urban Miseducation
Milwaukee’s two African American Immersion schools—public schools that infused African and African American themes into the state’s prescribed curriculum—officially opened in 1990 and 1991. Inner-city African American residents and school officials in Milwaukee prompted the call for their establishment. It was hoped that these African-centered schools would serve as a model for the city’s public school system to effectively combat the disparaging…
New and Important Contributions to the Educational History of African Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans
Educational and Social Reforms for African American Juvenile Delinquents in 19 th Century New York City and Philadelphia
This article identifies some of the earliest known examples of juvenile justice for African American juvenile delinquents in 19th century New York City and Philadelphia. It extends our understanding and raises questions about the quality and type of reform African American youth accused of crime received in these cities and the early purposes of juvenile reformatories in urban American. Warwick was a funny kind of place. It was a jail in disguise…
I Must Learn Now or Not at All
Gregory J. W. Urwin, Black Flag over Dixie
The Quest for“Book Learning”
This chapter contains sections titled: A Review of the Historiography of African American Education before and after the Civil War
From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse
This book examines Mississippi's politics and policies of post Civil War racial education. The primary debate centered on whether schools for African Americans should seek to develop Blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. African Americans envisioned schools established by and for themselves as a primary means of achieving independence, equality, political empowerment, and some degree of…
Because of Race
Book Review| January 01 2011 Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools. By Mica Pollock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xviii + 277 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $29.95 (cloth). Christopher M. Span Christopher M. Span University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
Hands on the Freedom Plow
Book Review| July 01 2013 Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 656 pp. Photographs. $34.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Christopher M. Span Christopher M. Span Search for other work…
Post-Slavery? Post-Segregation? Post-Racial? A History of the Impact of Slavery, Segregation, and Racism on the Education of African Americans
This chapter details how slavery, segregation, and racism impacted the educational experiences of African Americans from the colonial era to the present. It offers a historical overview of the African American educational experience and uses archival data and secondary source analysis to illustrate that America has yet to be a truly post-slavery and post-segregation society, let alone a post-racial society.
Reflections from Within
Before we expound on our brief “farewell” essay, we wish to extend our deepest gratitude to those colleagues who contributed as authors, reviewers, associate editors, and editorial board members in sustaining the high quality of scholarship in the history of education. You have been indispensable in this process. I hope you realize the extent to which your role as reviewers serves as a means of mentoring, in contributing to the development of a c…
History of Education in the News
History of Education Quarterly editorial team is planning to integrate a new feature, “History of Education in the News,” into periodic issues of the journal. Our idea is to highlight relevant historical scholarship on a topic that has contemporary public resonance. Our first piece in this new vein engages the current uptick of interest in the links between slavery and higher education. Recent scholarship and popular press accounts have documente…
Sam's Cottonfield Blues
This History of Education Society Presidential Address primarily utilizes evocative autoethnography and narrative inquiry to convey its main points. It is written in the storytelling tradition of the African American past and analyzes the lives of three generations of Black Mississippians as they navigated life in Jim Crow Mississippi. It highlights the impact and legacy the cotton economy had on the life opportunities of these Black Mississippia…
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