Jarvis R. Givens, the Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at Radcliffe and an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studies the relationship among race, power, and schooling in the United States. His first book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), traces the subversive and often covert educational practices black people employed to challenge racial domination during slavery through Jim Crow.
As a Radcliffe fellow, Givens is writing “The American School in Red, White, and Black,” which revises the story of education in the United States during the 19th century. By analyzing literature on Native, white, and Black education, he reveals how experiences unique to Native communities, such as missionary and residential boarding schools, and experiences of Black people, such as the criminalization of literacy and then systematic underdevelopment of black segregated schools, were not anomalies but, in fact, structural features of a broader schooling apparatus of the state.
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