Sublime

It revealed the bait and switch at the heart of standardized tests—the exact thing that made them unfair: She was teaching test-taking form for standardized exams that purportedly measured intellectual strength. My classmates and I would get higher scores—two hundred points, as promised—than poorer students, who might be equivalent in intellectual

While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.

Paradoxically, many of these disciplinary policies are akin to the progressive vision espoused by eugenicists like Karl Pearson, justifying harsh discipline as a means to “close academic disparities.” Schooling becomes standardized testing without creative expression, arbitrary rules without room to breathe, Black Excellence without Black Joy.

boundaries of an antiblack world might, in other words, remain virtual (that is, immanent or imagined), yet one's paranoia is still a correct measure of

Who thrives in an undifferentiated environment?

HALF-GERMAN, HALF-EGYPTIAN AUTHORITY

Moynihan Report,

reflected back at us in our institutions and social relationships.