“Historical narratives of racial exceptionality also leave us unprepared to address current conditions. For example, they…
“Through high school, as a straight Black guy, I had no sense of myself as someone girls might be attracted to. I didn’t think I was unattractive, exactly. More that I didn’t see myself registering romantically with the girls and young women around me. It wasn’t…
““This is offensive to some people,” says Calvin Hedrick, a Sacramento area father of three school-age kids. He comes from the Maidu Mountain Indian tribe. Hedrick also leads The 5th Direction. It’s a group that promotes cultural strength among tribal…
“In his book Education, Power, and Personal Biography, Argentinian sociologist and educator Carlos Alberto Torres challenged mythologies of liberal education and its “notion that education is a neutral activity, and that education is an…
“The Stanford University study analyzed a pilot program of ethnic studies classes at three San Francisco high schools and found that, on average, at-risk ninth-graders encouraged to enroll in the…
“Rothstein critiqued textbooks published by TCI (History Alive!), Pearson-Prentice Hall, and Holt McDougall for their passive, misleading language. One of the books states, “African Americans found themselves forced into segregated…
“Amo was exhibiting the kind of disruptive behavior that, for black boys in particular is often confused for a disability in school settings. Many people believe this diagnostic progression — from frustrated, difficult kid to disabled…