Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space Volume 72 - Hardcover

by Bayley J. Marquez (Author)

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.

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Plantation Pedagogy is as much a study in method as it is a landmark contribution to the fields of Black and Indigenous studies. Through her careful interrogation of key archival and scholarly texts, Bayley Marquez takes us on a journey through myriad and global geographies of slavery and settlement, offering an unflinching and fluid analysis of the intimacies of colonialist violence enacted upon Black and Indigenous peoples, lands, and waters. She brilliantly traces the pedagogical entanglements of colonialism and empire as manifested through boarding and technical schools, evidencing how they served as the proving grounds for the logics of US settler colonial and imperial projects across the Pacific and the Atlantic. At stake for Marquez is not a return or resuscitation of progressive or even critical pedagogies but rather a (re)assertion of Indigenous refusal, a decolonial and abolitionist politics that unmakes schooling as such, with the hopes of unearthing new stories of relationality, being, and liberation.--Sandy Grande, author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought

Author Biography

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.