This was the spring of 2016 he was just a few weeks away from receiving his doctorate in African diaspora studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Having flown across the country on the kind of offbeat, open-ended quest that later would become a regular part of his research process, he was sitting in a church storage closet in Prince George’s County, Maryland, sorting through a stack of old documents and videos. Watch Givens’s conversation with Dr.Jarvis Givens remembers feeling like a door had opened in his mind.Watch Givens discuss Fugitive Pedagogy with Brandeis University sociologist Derron Wallace at a June 2021 online event hosted by the University of Bristol (UK).Watch Givens’s conversation with Professor Imani Perry (Princeton University) at “Black Teachers, Black Bookstores, and the Struggle against Miseducation,” a May 2021 online event hosted by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA).Watch Givens and Professor Cornel West (Harvard University) discuss Fugitive Pedagogy at a May 2021 online event hosted by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and PBS Books.At the Atlantic, read Givens on the Black teachers who since the nineteenth century have been deeply engaged in the work of challenging racial domination in American schools.Read Givens’s contribution to the Los Angeles Review of Books series “Antiracism in the Contemporary University,” on the long roots of antiracist teaching.Woodson, the founder of Black History Month Read a Harvard Gazette Q&A with Givens on Carter G.Read a Harvard Magazine feature on Givens’s research into the underground history of Black schooling.Read a Des Moines Register essay, informed by Fugitive Pedagogy, on the vital importance of continuing to teach Black history amid “culture wars” efforts by American political conservatives to gut diversity programs and strip content from Advanced Placement history curricula.Read a Harvard Graduate School of Education Q&A with Givens.Woodson’s 1933 book, The Mis-education of the Negro Kendi on the continued relevance of Carter G. At the Atlantic, read a conversation between Givens and Ibram X.Woodson’s “visionary thinking” regarding Black History Month In Boston Globe Magazine, read Jarvis Givens’s celebration of Carter G.
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