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The Mis Education of the Negro

Carter Godwin Woodson

What happens when an education teaches people to admire every culture but their own and to look down on their own people?

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Author
Carter Godwin Woodson

Why read it

  • You will see how what a school leaves out can shape what students think of themselves and their people
  • You will ask whether an education trains you to make a living and serve your community, or only to imitate others
  • You will think about the difference between leading a community and serving it

Who it is for

  • A teacher or school leader asking whose history the curriculum tells
  • A parent concerned about what their child's school leaves out
  • A graduate who feels schooling trained them to copy, not to build

Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Preface
  3. The Mis-Education of the Negro
  4. I. The Seat of the Trouble
  5. II. How We Missed the Mark
  6. III. How We Drifted Away from the Truth
  7. IV. Education Under Outside Control
  8. V. The Failure to Learn to Make a Living
  9. VI. The Educated Negro Leaves the Masses
  10. VII. Dissension and Weakness
  11. VIII. Professional Education Discouraged
  12. IX. Political Education Neglected
  13. X. The Loss of Vision
  14. XI. The Need for Service Rather Than Leadership
  15. XII. Hirelings in the Places of Public Servants
  16. XIII. Understand the Negro
  17. XIV. The New Program
  18. XV. Vocational Guidance
  19. XVI. The New Type of Professional Man Required
  20. XVII. Higher Strivings in the Service of the Country
  21. XVIII. The Study of the Negro
  22. Appendix
  23. Much Ado About a Name
  24. The Value of Color

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