Contents
Part One: Teachers and Teaching
Chapter One: "Dying with One’s Boots On": Collective Remembering of Legally Segregated Schools for Blacks and Its Teachers
Chapter Two: You Must Remember This: Reconstructions of the Geopolitics of
Race and Racism in the Jim Crow South
Chapter Three: Voices of Collective Remembering: Black Teachers in Edgecombe,
Nash and Wilson Counties
Part Two: Hidden Transcripts Revealed
Chapter Four: "The Way We Found Them to Be": Black Teachers and the Politics of Respectability in Jim Crow North Carolina
Chapter Five: A Strategy of Opportunity: Black Teachers and the Making of a New
Form of Capital
Part Three: Remembering Jim Crow’s Teachers
Chapter Five: "The Half Had Not Been Told": Hidden Transcripts Made Public
Biography
Hilton Kelly is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor of Education at Davidson College. With published and forthcoming articles in Educational Studies, Urban Education, and Educational Foundations, Kelly’s scholarship addresses important questions at the intersection of the sociology of education, African-American history and culture, and the lives and work of teachers.
Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association
"Kelly…make[s] a convincing argument for the relevance of oral history as a research method that provides evidence beyond the written record and for placing black Jim Crow era teachers at the forefront of the civil rights movement."-Sarah Travis, University of North Texas, USA
