Pedagogy of Survival
The Narratives of Millicent E. Brown and Josephine Boyd Bradley
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2016. XXVI, 214 pp.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Pedagogy of Survival
- Purpose of This Book
- The Methodology
- Chapter 1. The Desegregation of Rivers High School
- The Story
- The Groundwork
- A Turning Point
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- Opposite the Front Door
- The Trauma
- Being Bullied
- Alienation
- Stress and Somatic Disturbances
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Intellect
- The Precedence for Her Pedagogy
- Buffered by Intellect
- The Teachers
- Blame, Guilt, and Responsibility
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tragicomic
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tiospaye
- Be Bigger
- Father
- Mother
- Sisters
- Conclusion
- Salute to Millicent Ellison Brown
- Chapter 2. The Desegregation of Greensboro (Grimsley) Senior High School
- The Story
- Dissension and Departure
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- The Power of Counternarratives
- Counternarratives as Authentic Voice
- Counternarratives as Historical Contradictions
- The Trauma
- Hate and Pain
- Why Did They Do It?
- The Chosen One
- No One Ever Asked Me
- The Psychological
- The Isolation
- Pedagogy of Survival: Educational Schizophrenia
- Pedagogy of Survival: Faith, Family, and Community
- Hero Behind the Hero
- Faith and Family
- Mother and Father
- Three of the Seven
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Empathetic Practice of Peers
- Conclusion
- The Homegoing
- Salute to Josephine Ophelia Boyd Bradley
- Chapter 3. Pedagogy of Survival: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Lessons
- Pioneers Can’t Expect to Feel Normal: The Narratives of Harvey B. Gantt
- Entering through the Back Door: The Narratives of Dr. Larry Canady
- It’s Okay to Cry: The Narratives of Kristina Frazier
- Chapter 4. The Relevance
- Organic Intellectuals
- What Is an Organic Intellectual?
- Desegregation Pioneers as Organic Intellectuals
- Humility and Nonexceptionality
- Us, We, Me
- Insurgency
- Two Fronts
- The Organic Intellectual: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Implicit Bias
- What Is Implicit Bias?
- Awareness
- Priming
- Implicit Bias: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Donations
- Photos
- References
- Index
- Series Index
Chapter 2. The Desegregation of Greensboro (Grimsley) Senior High School
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THE DESEGREGATION OF GREENSBORO (GRIMSLEY) SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Josephine Boyd
If you start it, you must finish it.
—C. Lee Boyd, personal communication, March 20, 2005
On September 4, 1957, in Greensboro, North Carolina, 17-year-old Josephine Ophelia Boyd entered all-white Greensboro Senior High School. Josephine was among six other African American students to enter all-white schools that year; however, she was the only student to enroll at the high school level. Her first day did not garner much of a welcome. Entering amidst a hostile crowd, barking German shepherd dogs, and the shouts of “Go Home [N-word]!” (Boyd, 1995, p. 367) was the antithesis of her first days at the all-black Dudley High School. It was approximately one minute and a half to the main entrance, but when Steve Hartman from CBS News asked, “How long that walk felt?” Dr. Boyd Bradley said bluntly, “Forever” (Alfano, 2006). While the headline in the Greensboro Daily News (1957) read “Negro Student Enters Quietly Today,” Josephine’s account of this day is very different, and her senior year memorable in ways unimaginable.
What type of person warranted such obscenities? Who, entering the school, could provoke such vile reactions? Based on the level of hatred displayed, one would not assume that Josephine Boyd was merely entering the ← 55 | 56 → high school districted for her geographic area. What people may overlook is that the mobs that typically surrounded and taunted students who desegregated...
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Or login to access all content.- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Pedagogy of Survival
- Purpose of This Book
- The Methodology
- Chapter 1. The Desegregation of Rivers High School
- The Story
- The Groundwork
- A Turning Point
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- Opposite the Front Door
- The Trauma
- Being Bullied
- Alienation
- Stress and Somatic Disturbances
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Intellect
- The Precedence for Her Pedagogy
- Buffered by Intellect
- The Teachers
- Blame, Guilt, and Responsibility
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tragicomic
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tiospaye
- Be Bigger
- Father
- Mother
- Sisters
- Conclusion
- Salute to Millicent Ellison Brown
- Chapter 2. The Desegregation of Greensboro (Grimsley) Senior High School
- The Story
- Dissension and Departure
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- The Power of Counternarratives
- Counternarratives as Authentic Voice
- Counternarratives as Historical Contradictions
- The Trauma
- Hate and Pain
- Why Did They Do It?
- The Chosen One
- No One Ever Asked Me
- The Psychological
- The Isolation
- Pedagogy of Survival: Educational Schizophrenia
- Pedagogy of Survival: Faith, Family, and Community
- Hero Behind the Hero
- Faith and Family
- Mother and Father
- Three of the Seven
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Empathetic Practice of Peers
- Conclusion
- The Homegoing
- Salute to Josephine Ophelia Boyd Bradley
- Chapter 3. Pedagogy of Survival: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Lessons
- Pioneers Can’t Expect to Feel Normal: The Narratives of Harvey B. Gantt
- Entering through the Back Door: The Narratives of Dr. Larry Canady
- It’s Okay to Cry: The Narratives of Kristina Frazier
- Chapter 4. The Relevance
- Organic Intellectuals
- What Is an Organic Intellectual?
- Desegregation Pioneers as Organic Intellectuals
- Humility and Nonexceptionality
- Us, We, Me
- Insurgency
- Two Fronts
- The Organic Intellectual: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Implicit Bias
- What Is Implicit Bias?
- Awareness
- Priming
- Implicit Bias: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Donations
- Photos
- References
- Index
- Series Index