Black schools’ industrial training was also a fiscal expedient for campus upkeep

Evidence

All the schools of higher learning incorporated industrial education in greater or lesser degree. It was considered necessary for teaching the dignity of labor, but it was also integral to the schools’ boarding system. Without adequate staffing, endowments, or sufficient revenue from tuition, Home Mission schools found manual labor, while under the pedagogic rubric of “industrial training,” to be a necessary expedient for daily cleaning, cooking, and campus upkeep. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 169

Categorization

• XREF: Shows how ideology (‘dignity of labor’) masked material necessity — a recurring dynamic in respectability politics where principle and expediency fuse. — connects to: Historically Black colleges were founded to train servants and docile cheap labor. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 838; Educational colorism channeled darker Blacks into submissive industrial training. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 652; White-funded black higher education aimed to discipline rather than liberate — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 281 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Historically Black colleges were founded to train servants and docile cheap labor. #corroborates (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 838
• White-funded black higher education aimed to discipline rather than liberate #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 281
• Educational colorism channeled darker Blacks into submissive industrial training. #expands (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 652
• Recession conditions let education groups convert schooling into a tool for industrial needs #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1124
• Black Baptist colleges blended classical, moral, religious, and industrial training #complicates (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1226
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. #complicates (0.72)