Hilton Kelly is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor of Education at Davidson College. With published and forthcoming articles in Educational Studies, Urban Education, and Educational Foundations, Kelly’s scholarship addresses important questions at the intersection of the sociology of education, African-American history and culture, and the lives and work of teachers.

Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association

• ContentsPart One: Teachers and TeachingChapter One: "Dying with One’s Boots On": Collective Remembering of Legally Segregated Schools for Blacks and Its Teachers Chapter Two: You Must Remember This: Reconstructions of the Geopolitics of Race and Racism in the Jim Crow South Chapter Three: Voices of Collective Remembering: Black Teachers in Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties Part Two: Hidden Transcripts RevealedChapter Four: "The Way We Found Them to Be": Black Teachers and the Politics of Respectability in Jim Crow North Carolina Chapter Five: A Strategy of Opportunity: Black Teachers and the Making of a New Form of Capital Part Three: Remembering Jim Crow’s TeachersChapter Five: "The Half Had Not Been Told": Hidden Transcripts Made Public

Hilton Kelly is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor of Education at Davidson College. With published and forthcoming articles in Educational Studies, Urban Education, and Educational Foundations, Kelly’s scholarship addresses important questions at the intersection of the sociology of education, African-American history and culture, and the lives and work of teachers.

Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association

• ContentsPart One: Teachers and TeachingChapter One: "Dying with One’s Boots On": Collective Remembering of Legally Segregated Schools for Blacks and Its Teachers Chapter Two: You Must Remember This: Reconstructions of the Geopolitics of Race and Racism in the Jim Crow South Chapter Three: Voices of Collective Remembering: Black Teachers in Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties Part Two: Hidden Transcripts RevealedChapter Four: "The Way We Found Them to Be": Black Teachers and the Politics of Respectability in Jim Crow North Carolina Chapter Five: A Strategy of Opportunity: Black Teachers and the Making of a New Form of Capital Part Three: Remembering Jim Crow’s TeachersChapter Five: "The Half Had Not Been Told": Hidden Transcripts Made Public

Hilton Kelly is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor of Education at Davidson College. With published and forthcoming articles in Educational Studies, Urban Education, and Educational Foundations, Kelly’s scholarship addresses important questions at the intersection of the sociology of education, African-American history and culture, and the lives and work of teachers.

Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association

• ContentsPart One: Teachers and TeachingChapter One: "Dying with One’s Boots On": Collective Remembering of Legally Segregated Schools for Blacks and Its Teachers Chapter Two: You Must Remember This: Reconstructions of the Geopolitics of Race and Racism in the Jim Crow South Chapter Three: Voices of Collective Remembering: Black Teachers in Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties Part Two: Hidden Transcripts RevealedChapter Four: "The Way We Found Them to Be": Black Teachers and the Politics of Respectability in Jim Crow North Carolina Chapter Five: A Strategy of Opportunity: Black Teachers and the Making of a New Form of Capital Part Three: Remembering Jim Crow’s TeachersChapter Five: "The Half Had Not Been Told": Hidden Transcripts Made Public