Unbank the Fire: Visions for the Education of African American Children

by Janice E. Hale and Professor Janice E. Hale

Book Overview

In her highly acclaimed work Black Children, Janice Hale argued that the difficulties many African American children have in school result from differences in learning style that are deeply rooted in African American culture. Now, in Unbank the Fire, Hale asks a new question: What sorts of extraordinary measures are needed to overcome these differences and let black children reach their full potential in school and beyond? Her answer:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801848229
• ISBN13: 9780801848223
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Family Roots

Janice Hale's Unbank the Fire traces her own family back to Africa in this interesting account of how her family struggled to make a comfortable life for themselves in America. The book also does an intersting job of outlining ways to educate African American children. The only aspect that needs strengthening in my opinion is absence of discipline in her theories.