Black Teachers on Teaching, Paperback

Black Teachers on Teaching is an honest and compelling account of the politics and philosophies involved in the education of black children during the last fifty years. Michele Foster talks to those who were the first to teach in desegregated southern schools and to others who taught in large urban districts, such as Boston, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. All go on record about the losses and gains accompanying desegregation, the inspirations and rewards of teaching, and the challenges and solutions they see in the coming years.

Michele Foster is Sherman Family Endowed Chair in Urban Education Research and the executive director of the Urban Education Research Center at the University of Missouri Kansas City. A frequent contributor to journals and books on education, she is the author of "Black Teachers on Teaching" (The New Press); the editor of "Readings on Equal Education," vol. 11: "Qualitative Investigations into Schools and Schooling"; and a co-editor of "Unrelated Kin: Ethnic and Gender Identity in Women s Personal Narratives" and "Growing Up African American in Catholic School."
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