Below is the recording of Class 6 The recordings are divided into different sections. Please email peoplesschooldc@gmail.com if you notice any issues with the recordings or any broken or deadlinks.
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Agenda
1. Introduction to Racism and White Privilege Course and Setting Context
2. Introduction to Whitewashing US History
3. Brief History of US Education
4. Whitewashing US History
5. The Lost Cause of the Confederacy Movement
6. Black History, Radical Historians, and Critical Race Theory
7. 21st Century Curriculum Battles
8. Modern Efforts to “Unwhitewash”
9. Resources and Ways to Get Involved
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Presentation Slides
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1. Introduction to Racism and White Privilege Course and Setting Context
(Same Introduction every week)
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Videos in Section
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2. Introduction to Whitewashing US History
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Videos in Section
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Bryan Stevenson “We can’t recover from this history until we deal with it.”
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: U.S. History
- Guardian: James Baldwin at Cambridge University – 1965
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3. Brief History of US Education
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4. Whitewashing US History
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Videos in Section
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5. The Lost Cause of the Confederacy Movement
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Videos in Section
- john a. powell – 2019 ABSV Symposium (Powell starts speaking at 17:45)
- Mic: The Real Legacy of Slavery No One Talks About
- Vox: How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History
- MIC: Why do these Confederate monuments fall apart so easily?
- NowThis: ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffrey Robinson Talks about Myths About Confederate Monuments
- Mitch Landrieu addresses removal of Confederate statues
- The Daily Social Distancing Show: Jon Stewart Talks Confederate Statues, COVID-19 & “Irresistible”
- EJI: The Truth About Confederate-Named Schools
- Birth of Nation Clip About Reconstruction
- Paul Butler, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center responds to an NPR white female caller who “honors” her confederate heritage
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6. Black History, Radical Historians, and Critical Race Theory
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Videos in Section
- The History of Black History Month
- James Baldwin Movie Trailer: I am Not Your Negro
- Howard Zinn’s Speech on Writing “The People’s History of the United States”
- john a. powell – 2019 ABSV Symposium (Powell starts speaking at 17:45)
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7. 21st Century Curriculum Battles
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Videos in Section
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8. Modern Efforts to “Unwhitewash”
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Videos in Section
- “The 1619 Project”: Nikole Hannah-Jones on Confronting the Truth about Slavery
- Now This: Why We Need To Decolonize The Brooklyn Museum
- The Guardian: Pain and Terror: America remembers its past
- Civil Dunigan’s Poem on History of Lynching and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Lynching Museum)
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7. Resources and Ways to Get Involved
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Projects
- 1619 Project
- New York Times project in 2019 lead by Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019
- Read all articles here:theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/1619-project-list-of-articles/
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Nonprofit that challenges racial injustice through many ways including capturing black history in US
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- The Zinn Project
- supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country
- zinnedproject.org
- Teaching for Change
- provides teachers and parents with the social justice educational tools and opportunities
- teachingforchange.org
- Teaching Tolerance
- A project of the SPLC for educators teaching diversity, equity and justice
- tolerance.org/
- Olivia Balcos: Decolonizing Environmental Education
- Resources and histories on decolonizing environmental education
- https://oliviabalcos.wixsite.com/portfolio/decolonizing-environmental-educat
- People’s School of DC
- A volunteer cooperative organizing and connecting people to social justice education and resources in DC
- org
Readings
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson
- Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
- What is Radical History? by Howard Zinn
- People’s History of United States by Howard Zinn
- Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberle Crenshaw and Neil Gotanda
- Equal Justice Initiative Reports “Lynching in America” and “Segregation in America”
- People’s School of DC: Anti-Racism Reading Recommendations
- wordpress.com/anti-racism-book-recommendations/
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(Same every week)
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Additional Resources
- Scene on the Radio: Seeing White
Get involved Locally
- Peoples School of DC: Local Trainings, Lectures, Activism
- Peoples School of DC: Local Social Justice Resources and Organizations
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