Plantation Pedagogy - on African American New Books Podcast
Listen to this podcast featuring the new book, Plantation Pedagogy by Bayley Marquez. Her work examines historical US education and how pedagogy functioned to create "Black" and "Indigenous" subjects. Her analysis of race, and her framework regarding space and other contested terms are likely to encourage additional discourse.
The Misogynoir to Mishpat (M2M) Research Network (c) 2024
https://newbooksnetwork.com/plantation-pedagogy
Plantation Pedagogy
The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space
Bayley J. Marquez
Hosted by Max Jacobs
Show Notes and Summary
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: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space (U California Press, 2024) sits where Black and Native studies meet in order to understand our interconnected histories and theorize our collective futures.
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.
Max Jacobs is a PhD student in education at Rutgers University. He currently sits on the Graduate Student Council for the History of Education Society.