Critical Review of Educating the Black Child in the Black Independent School

As part of our politics and multiculturalism class we had to do a critical review of a book. This book is entitled "Educating the Black Child in the Black Independent School" written by Seth N. Asumah and Valencia C. Perkins. As a whole this book covers the many inadequacies that the inner-city school system has in educating black children and problems that black children have to deal with while seeking an education in America. It …

…public and inner city schools. It opens my eyes and when I look and think of the things that I have been taught and how it's true that I've been taught in a Eurocentric and white perspective and not given any basis in black culture in my education. This book should be used as a tool for any teacher that really wants to reach and educate all their students to the best of their ability.