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The cases of two scholars, Rebecca Tuvel and Bruce Gilley, immediately come to mind. Tuvel wrote a paper for the feminist philosophy giant Hypatia, exploring parallels between transracial and transgender identities and advocating transracial identity statuses. However, for Theory, race and gender are profoundly different. To claim transgender statu
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Ils s’en sortent avec un ni-ni. Ni lycée ni université. Aaron crie victoire et abandonne sa scolarité à quatorze ans, en classe de troisième. Première entorse à la loi. Pour mieux s’extraire de l’école, il la torpille dans son tout premier blog : « Aux États-Unis, notre système éducatif détruit le cerveau des enfants et les moule afin qu’ils devien
... See moreFlore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)
The rest of my teachers maybe did the best they could, but they just needed a lot of help making their best better. There were so many things we needed in those classrooms, in our city, in our state, in our country that our teachers could have provided if they would have gone home and really done their homework. They never once said the words: “eco
... See moreKiese Laymon • Heavy: An American Memoir
Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Antonia Malchik • True believers and mass movements
Teachers who focus on themes of injustice and its causes are, in many ways, on the front lines in dealing with it. To be effective teachers, we often need to know the direct experiences of violence that students bring to the classroom.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
White people have generally advocated for both assimilationist and segregationist
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
