Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space

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Univ of California Press, Feb 6, 2024 - Education - 320 pages
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land. This form of teaching—what Bayley J. Marquez names plantation pedagogy—was built on the claim that slavery and land dispossession are fundamentally educational. Plantation pedagogy and the formal institutions that encompassed it were thus integrally tied to enslavement, settlement, and their inherent violence toward land and people. Marquez investigates how proponents developed industrial education domestically and then spread the model abroad as part of US imperialism. A deeply thoughtful and arresting work, Plantation Pedagogy sits where Black and Native studies meet in order to understand our interconnected histories and theorize our collective futures.
 

Contents

Teaching Slavery and Settlement
3
Plantation Pedagogy Educative Space and Currents
28
Plantation Pedagogy on the Reservation
55
Island Plantations and Industrial Schooling
80
Industrial Education and Anticolonial
105
Settlement Slavery
131
The Expansion of Plantation
152
The School
176
Learning by Not Doing?
197
Acknowledgments
207
Bibliography
271
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Bayley J. Marquez is an Indigenous scholar from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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