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Derek W. Black holds the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of South Carolina Law School, where he directs the university’s Constitutional Law Center. He lives in Columbia, SC.
“The story of the fight for literacy of Black people in the United States is one of great hope and of profound frustration. Professor Derek Black has written a magnificent book that tells this story from the earliest days of the country through today’s continuing struggles. Black’s beautifully written book reminds us of a largely forgotten history that must be remembered and be a basis for action now.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, author of Worse Than Nothing “As Derek W. Black rightly concludes this bracing, moving history, ‘something dangerously reminiscent of the pre-Civil War South happening in education today.’ Read Dangerous Learning to grasp the heritage of the perilous path MAGA elected officials have chosen to suppress learning among those they seek to silence and dominate.”—Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
