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Checkmate

Black Children as Metaphor for a Failed Education System

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The Substance of Truth

Part of the book series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ((TRANS,volume 71))

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If it was doubtful as to how far the social and economic classes of any modern state could be essentially transformed and changed by popular education, how much more tremendous was the problem of educating a race whose ability to assimilate modern training was in grave question and whose place in the nation and the world, even granted they could be educated, was a matter of baffling social philosophy.

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Tolu Olorunda

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Olorunda, T. (2011). Checkmate. In: Olorunda, T. (eds) The Substance of Truth. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 71. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-534-5_4

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