In this collection of nine essays, contributors describe how African Americans have reacted to a white-run education system that is built to produce workers for a corporate-industrial state that does not want them. topics include pedagogy and politics in the context of power, the politics of early black nationalism within education, black feminist pedagogy, Marxian and radical reconstructionist critiques of American education, community control within black nationalism, leadership and the cultural Other, teacher reform efforts and the politics of educational change, and critical race theory as an educational protest. Annotation 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)