Zoë Burkholder
Burkholder attended the University of Virginia, Charlottesville where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Archaeology, the University of California, Berkeley where she received a Master of Arts degree in Anthropology and New York University where she received a Ph.D. in the history of education.
Zoë Burkholder is a professor of educational foundations and the founding director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project in the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University. She’s a historian of education that has expertise in antiracist education, the social construction of race in schools, school integration, and educational activism among Native American, Black, Latin, and Asian American communities.
Zoë has her MA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in the history of education from New York University, and a BA in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Zoë runs anti-bias and antiracist professional development workshops for K-12 teachers on topics like Black history, the Holocaust, Native American history, LGBTQ+ history, Asian American and Pacific Islander history, and trains undergraduate students in human rights education.
An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North offers the first social history of northern Black debates over separation versus school integration from the 1840s up to present day.
Ever since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. However school integration wasn’t the only, or even always the dominant, civil rights strategy. At times, African Americans have also fought for separate, Black controlled schools dedicated to community empowerment and racial uplift.
This book offers a social history of such debates within northern Black communities from the 1840s to present day. Drawing on sources including school board records, Black press, the papers of civil rights activists, court cases, social science studies, it reveals that northern Black communities, suburban and urban, vacillated between a preference for either school integration or separation during specific eras. But there never was a consensus. Also highlights the chorus of debate, dissent, and counter-narratives which pushed families to consider a fuller range of educational reforms.
This is a sweeping historical analysis which covers the full history of public education in the North, this work complicates our comprehension of school integration by highlighting the diverse points of view of Black parents, students, teachers, and community leaders that are all committed to improving public education.
It finds that Black school integrationists and separatists have all worked together in this dynamic tension which fueled effective strategies for educational reform and the Black civil rights movement, a discussion which continues to be highly charged in present day schooling decisions.
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Zoë Burkholder: F.A.Q
What was the first book Zoë Burkholder wrote?
The first book written by Zoë Burkholder was Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954, published in 2011.
What was the most recent book Zoë Burkholder wrote?
Her most recently released work was An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North on August 11th, 2021.
Are there upcoming new books by Zoë Burkholder?
Zoë Burkholder does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.
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How many books has Zoë Burkholder written?
Zoë Burkholder has written 3 books. All of her books are Non-Fiction Books.