Beyond The Big House: African American

Using in-depth interviews and storytelling, Ladson-Billings depicts deeply personal portraits of these scholars' experiences to confront race and racism, not only theoretically, but within their everyday professional lives in "the Big House" of the academy. Ladson-Billings gives these portraits even greater resonance and meaning by pairing these teacher educators with historical figures,such as Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, and Charlotte Forten#x14;whose contributions to the struggle for social justice are a wellspring of hope and courage to all educators, and a tribute to African Americans whose political, scientific, and spiritual efforts made life better for us all. This compelling book is important reading for all educators who want to transform teacher education for the better.

Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Series Foreword

ix

James A. Banks

Preface

xv

Acknowledgments

xix

Introduction

1

(12)

Teacher Education as the Big House

2

(4)

The Prevailing Themes of African American Teacher Educators' Work Lives

6

(6)

Conclusion

12

(1)

The Method and the Madness: What I Did and Why I Did It

13

(13)

How the Interviews Developed

21

(3)

The Technical Details

24

(2)

Joyce King -- Yemaja

26

(20)

``How Did I Find My Way to College?''---Joyce King's Early Story

27

(5)

``I Had a Picture of Someone Who Was Making a Difference''---Young, Gifted, and Black

32

(1)

``You Can't Transcend It, but You Have To Do More Than Just Survive It''---Professional Connections

33

(1)

Thoughts on Teacher Education

34

(1)

``They're Not Bothered by the Things I'm Bothered by---Black Professional Life

35

(5)

``It's Like Trying To Turn an Elephant''---The Impact of Culture on Professional Identity

40

(2)

Joyce King's Scholarly Contribution

42

(2)

``Yeah, They Won Today, but I Am Still Here''---Concluding Thoughts

44

(2)

Carl Grant -- High John the Conqueror

46

(18)

``You Have To Get Off That Campus''---My Relationship With Carl Grant

47

(2)

``I Come From a Very Strong Family''

49

(1)

``One Day in Marshall Fields''---Carl Grant Becomes a Teacher

50

(2)

``African Americans Don't Get Out of the University of Chicago''---Moving on to Graduate School

52

(2)

``It's About Life, Living, People . . . Fairness and Social Justice for Everybody''

54

(3)

Carl Grant's Scholarly Contribution

57

(1)

``Racism Is Still a Part of the Experience''

58

(3)

``The First Person You Pay Is Yourself''

61

(3)

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine -- Harriet Tubman

64

(19)

``Don't Make Me Kill That Woman''---My Relationship With Jacqueline Jordan Irvine

67

(1)

``Those Good-Looking Black Women''---Jackie Irvine's Road to the Academy

68

(3)

``What About the Other Children?''---Focusing on Urban Education

71

(1)

``I Only Had a Brief Window When I Wasn't Taking Care of Somebody''---Scholar as Caregiver

72

(1)

``I Don't Know If It's a Vision or a Dilemma''---Improving Teacher Education

73

(2)

``What Do the Black People Think About You?''---Racial Differences in Professional Life

75

(2)

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine's Scholarly Contribution

77

(3)

``The Minute We Get It, They Want To Change It''---Mentoring Young Scholars

80

(1)

``The Lord Didn't Put You Here for No Reason''---Meaning and Purpose in African American Scholars' Work

81

(1)

Concluding Thoughts: Research Without a Sense of Purpose Tends To Lose Its Purpose

81

(2)

Geneva Gay -- Biddy Mason

83

(15)

``Stumbling Backwards in Blind Faith''---Geneva Gay's Early Story

84

(2)

``Going To Be as Black as I Want To Be''---Graduate School as an Identity Watershed

86

(2)

Geneva Gay's Scholarly Contribution

88

(1)

``My Personal Is the Heart and Soul of My Professional''---Geneva Gay as Teacher Educator

89

(2)

Getting ``Down and Dirty'' To Teach---The Pedagogy of Geneva Gay

91

(1)

``You've Got To Be in Role''---Differences in Black and White Academic Life

92

(3)

``Affirmation Before Reformation''---The Essence of Geneva Gay

95

(3)

William Tate -- Nat Turner

98

(17)

``Just Show Up on the First Day''---The Early Life of William Tate

99

(2)

Taking Baby Pictures---My Relationship with Bill Tate

101

(3)

``He's Not Looking Like a Prophet''---Stories of Encouragement (and Discouragement)

104

(1)

``There Are Only a Few of Us Who Are in the Position To Raise These Questions''---The Role of African American Teacher Educators

105

(2)

The Scholarly Contributions of William Tate

107

(1)

``I'm Working on Having a `We' Career''---Bill Tate's Professional Life

108

(1)

``It's Good To Have a Person Who Will Challenge You''---Forms of Mentoring and Support

109

(2)

``When Are You Going To Get a Real Job?''---The Invisible Culture of African American Family Support

111

(1)

``There Are Others of Us in This Community Who Know You Can Do It''---Taking on the Charge of Intellectual Leadership

112

(3)

Cherry A. McGee Banks -- Charlotte Forten

115

(13)

``My Journey Has Not Been a Direct One''---Cherry Banks's Early Professional Life

117

(2)

``I Have This . . . Absolutely Impossible Dream''---Cherry Banks's Vision of Teacher Education

119

(2)

The Scholarly Contributions of Cherry A. McGee Banks

121

(1)

``I'm Beginning To See Things That I'd Never Seen Before''---Cherry Banks's Impact on the Profession

122

(1)

``African American Students in All the Different Programs Would Come to Me''---Working in White Institutions

123

(1)

``We Managed To Pull Ourselves Together and To Survive and To Move On''---The Influence of African American Culture on Cherry Banks's Work

124

(2)

``I Have Had Wonderful Opportunities Presented to Me''---Carving an Independent Scholarly Identity

126

(2)

Lisa Delpit -- Lagniappe

128

(13)

Who Was Anna Julia Cooper?

129

(1)

Who Is Lisa Delpit and Why Are They Saying Those Things About Her?

130

(2)

``Will It Help the Sheep?''---Lisa Delpit's Contribution to Teacher Education

132

(1)

Journeying With African American Teacher Educators: What It All Means

133

(6)

Coda

139

(2)

References

141

(6)

Index

147

(9)

About the Author

156

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