An awesome thread:
Great writing by the Miami Herald
It was Florida, now it is Arkansas:
“The Advanced Placement African American Studies class was designed to prepare more Black students for college. Now, it’s better known as a political wedge.”
Desantis attacking far more than just an AP Course:
This is far worse than attacking the AP Test!
Attacking the AP Test was bad:
When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis floated the possibility of eliminating Advanced Placement classes from his state’s curriculum, he conveniently left out an important fact.
DeSantis was once the “AP US History student of the year,” according to his high school yearbook, pages of which were obtained by The Daily Beast.
Now Florida is attacking the SATs:
This is so sad:
“Florida Department of Education and Gov. Ron DeSantis setoff a firestorm rejecting an AP African American Studies Course. But what’s in the syllabus? Here’s a copy.”
A great quiz:
“When governments enter the business of banning books and censoring history, alarm bells should ring loudly about the state of democracy in the present. And that’s exactly where we are today in countless states around the country—and, most prominently, in Florida, where Ron DeSantis banned an AP African American Studies Course. In a nation with a long and painful history of racial discrimination, that censorship is especially dangerous.”
This is sad on so many levels!
“The College Board released the official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course in African American studies on Wednesday, the first day of Black History Month. But people are divided on some of the changes announced in the curriculum weeks after the state of Florida banned the course.”
“The state used Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act” to block the proposed program from its schools”
Let’s breakdown those ‘concerns’
“in·ter·sec·tion·al·i·ty ˌin-tər-ˌsek-shə-ˈna-lə-tē
: the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups
[Kimberlé] Crenshaw introduced the theory of intersectionality, the idea that when it comes to thinking about how inequalities persist, categories like gender, race, and class are best understood as overlapping and mutually constitutive rather than isolated and distinct.—Adia Harvey Wingfield”
“Twenty-eight years ago, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in a paper as a way to help explain the oppression of African-American women. Crenshaw’s then somewhat academic term is now at the forefront of national conversations about racial justice, identity politics, and policing—and over the years has helped shape legal discussions. A leading thinker and scholar in the field of critical race theory, Crenshaw, a professor at Columbia Law School, directs the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and is a co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, a think tank, both based on campus.”
“In an interview in her new collection, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis is asked about being a pioneer in developing the concept of intersectionality. She responds:
There were many pioneers of intersectionality but I do think it is important to acknowledge an organization that existed in New York in the late sixties and seventies called the Third World Women’s Alliance. That organization published a newspaper entitled Triple Jeopardy. Triple jeopardy was racism, sexism, and imperialism. Of course, imperialism reflected an international awareness of class issues. Many formations were attempting to bring these issues together. (p. 18)“
“William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Professor of American Studies; Chair of WGSS” at Yale.
“Key Findings
- Black male offenders continued to receive longer sentences than similarly situated White male offenders.
- Non-government sponsored departures and variances appear to contribute significantly to the difference in sentence length between Black male and White male offenders.
- Violence in an offender’s criminal history does not appear to account for any of the demographic differences in sentencing.
- Female offenders of all races received shorter sentences than White male offenders during the Post-Report period, as they had for the prior four periods.“
“Dr. Leslie Kay Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers New Brunswick, specializing in social movements. She draws extensively on the fields of race and gender, critical race theory, and online social media in her study of collective mobilization. She teaches qualitative and computer assisted research methods, particularly digital ethnography and content analysis.”
“Between the 1860s and the 1920s, white Americans pushed out thousands of black residents from their communities.”
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