Education

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Making Light of Slavery?

 

Recently in the Texas History class I am teaching a student shared an example of how two friends would quasi reenact an enslaved, enslaver situation at the place where they work. The White person would tell the Black person “get to work” and so on.
This student followed up in an email asking my thoughts: “How do you feel about that though, specifically, making a joke out of slavery? Do you think it’s offensive, ignores the plight of the enslaved, or perhaps something I/we haven’t considered? Or is it okay, diminishing the detrimental effects on the psyche of the African Americans by satirizing it?”
I asked if I could have time to think about it and “reply” here. This student said yes, so here goes.

 

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Source: andrewpegoda.com

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style guide: racial language

 

General rules I currently try to follow (click on links for further discussion):

 

Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

This article sheds light on why many are nervous to talk about race.

 

They are scared they may say something offensive.

 

Learning from this post can provide a lot of help to not be offensive.

 

Avoiding the topic of race, culture and ethnicity does not help move the country toward racial justice, dignity and respect.

 

Avoiding the topic of oppression keeps the oppression firmly in place.

 

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Rikers Island Jail Spends About $100K Per Inmate Annually

A new report out today reveals that Rikers Island, the nation’s second largest jail and subject of a damning federal investigation, spends $96,000 per inmate each year. That’s more than a 40 percent increase since 2006 and, The New York Times reports, twice the amount spent per inmate by other big cities like Los Angeles, which houses a larger inmate population.

 

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Source: colorlines.com

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Mexico Student Massacre a ‘Delicate Moment’ For Enrique Pena Nieto

 

Protesters hold photographs of missing students outside the building of the office of Mexico’s Attorney General, during a protest supporting the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College missing students, in Mexico City October 9, 2014.Reuters/Bernardo Montoya

 

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Source: www.ibtimes.com

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Detroit Student Suspended For Rest Of The Year Over Pocketknife Found In Purse

 

“Atiya, an Advanced Placement student, was originally expelled from Annapolis High following the incident. However, on Monday, the school board rolled back her punishment, albeit slightly. Atiya is now suspended for the rest of the year, but will be allowed to take online classes and graduate with her class in 2015, reports local outlet WJBK-TV.”

 

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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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An Introduction to Settler Colonialism at UBC

 

This three-part series on settler colonialism is co-authored between two people: one who identifies as a michif (Métis) man from Saskatoon, the other who identifies as a racialized, non-Indigenous female settler. As co-authors, we are speaking from our own perspectives as an Indigenous person (Justin) and as a settler (Kay).

 

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Source: unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com

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German universities scrap all tuition fees

 

“All German universities will be free of charge when term starts next week after fees were abandoned in Lower Saxony, the last of seven states to charge.

“Tuition fees are socially unjust,” said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped charges in 2012. “They particularly discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up studies. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany.”

 

Source: www.thetimes.co.uk

 

Not having access to equal education is a form of oppression.

 

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Teaching ‘The New Jim Crow’

 

Teaching Tolerance has teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it. Don’t miss out on these unique opportunities to hear Alexander speak about how mass incarceration represents a form of racialized social control, one that traps millions of people of color in a permanent undercaste and parallels an earlier system of racial control—Jim Crow.

 

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Source: www.tolerance.org