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Center for Race and Public Education in the South

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What We Do

We conduct and support research and scholarship on issues that lie at the intersection of race, education and schooling in the southern United States. 

Our Work

CRPES advances research that studies the potential means of ameliorating disparities in academic achievement among youth in the South. 

Who We Are

This interdisciplinary center brings together education scholars from history, psychology, philosophy and sociology to investigate the many facets of these disparities. 

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Educating for Democracy

Educating for Democracy provides educators with supplementary resources and ideas for the teaching of history and social studies from a developmental science perspective. Drawing on primary sources and secondary materials written by prominent scholars and thinkers, EFD is an inquiry-based approach for teaching about democracy and transformative people and events in the American experience.

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Charlottesville Freedom School

Replicated in locations across the country, Freedom Schools offer a 6-week summer program aimed at developing K-12 students literacy skills through culturally relevant practices, community engagement, and civic engagement.

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Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era

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African American Historians of Education and the Griot's Craft: A Historiography

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Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy method

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Negotiating Dominican Citizenship: Education, Race and Nation during the US Occupation, 1916-1924

In this Race & Education talk from the Center for Race and Public Education in the South (CRPES), Dr. Alexa Rodríguez gave a talk entitled "Negotiating Dominican Citizenship: Education, Race and Nation during the US Occupation, 1916-1924" on Wednesday, April 6th, 2022.

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Every Child a Freedom Soldier: Children, Youth, and the Civil Rights Movement

In this Race & Education talk from the Center for Race and Public Education in the South (CRPES), Dr. V.P. Franklin gave a talk entitled " Every Child a Freedom Soldier: Children, Youth, and the Civil Rights Movement." on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2022.

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Gobbling up the Land: Racialization Policies and Education in the Seminole Nation: 1843-1930

In this Race & Education talk from the Center for Race and Public Education in the South (CRPES), Dr. Jennifer Johnson gave a talk entitled "Gobbling up the Land: Racialization Policies and Education in the Seminole Nation: 1843-1930" on Wednesday, November 10th, 2021.

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Uncovering the Legacy of UVA’s First Black Woman Graduate: Louise Stokes Hunter’s Extraordinary Life

In this Race & Education talk from the Center for Race and Public Education in the South (CRPES), Dr. Margaret Thornton gave a talk entitled "Uncovering the Legacy of UVA’s First Black Woman Graduate: Louise Stokes Hunter’s Extraordinary Life" on Wednesday, October 13th, 2021.

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The Campus Color Lines: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom

In this Race & Education talk from the Center for Race and Public Education in the South (CRPES), Dr. Eddie Cole from UCLA gave a talk entitled "The Campus Color Lines: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom" on Tuesday, April 6th, 2021.

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Generation Interrupted: Rethinking “Students with Interrupted Formal Education” (SIFE) in the Wake of a Pandemic

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