#youth of color
Social studies lesson? Let’s talk about gangs, communities, and the institutions we interact with like the military, govt, schools, and mo— all using the freshest books
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High school students confront a meeting of the Detroit Board of Education to demand Black Studies programs.
Photo by Alan Gotkin for Fifth Estate(1969)
Despite many (white) teachers’ and school boards’ assumptions that students, especially POC, just don’t care about learning or their education. Naw, we just don’t care about whitewashed education.
Many of my students who really struggle with literacy and study skills, and whose classroom teachers complain about them being apathetic, suddenly bloom into historians and philosophers and literary critics when they’re allowed Black and Latino studies. Even just a glimpse sets them off being engaged for the first time.
Look through history and you’ll see youth of color fighting to learn. It’s going on as we speak, and I see it with my students while their teachers complain about them.
Problem is the curriculum, not the students.
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ive been feeling that way working with youth. like it’d be easy to write them off cos i hear a lot of fucked up shit from them but it’s like *my job* like literally my job to call em out and educate and help em learn and grow but lawd its stressfulYeah, it’s hard sometimes. I feel like this was a habit I got into being around really insular, mostly white radicals, where everything was about proving how radical every single action and opinion of yours is and where calling people out on minutia is basically a sport.
