When people refer to "whiteness" and "white supremacy", it's alas literally true in some contexts that they mean "literacy", and it's alas distressingly the case that one of those contexts is K-12 education
So "worship of the written word" means something beyond "being able to read", but characterizing what happens in K-12 schools as "worship" surely implies that a primary emphasis on literacy (as opposed to orality) is racist
And no, this is not a half-clever plot by white supremacists to keep minorities down. It is what professional "anti-racist" educators who oppose "white supremacy" in its many guises (including "worship of the written word") earnestly believe.
I’m all for showing due respect to oral tradition. But oral tradition is what flourishes outside of formal institutions without needing the help of those institutions, while inculcating literacy and all that entails is what schools are for.
Schools shouldn’t denigrate non-literate peoples or fail to recognize the wisdom and creativity encoded in those traditions — but neither should they fail to recognize and transmit the mind-expanding virtues of literacy, or reduce those qualities to “whiteness”
These schemata were written in the 1970’s. It’s been a long time since anyone believed or taught kids that like only Pilgrim’s Progress is literature or whatever.
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It's more than just a galactic self-own. It underscores a reality: meritocracy is being dismantled *at the precise moment when women are becoming dominant in academe* ; their dominance in turn hastens that dismantling...
NYC teachers union passes "Black Lives Matter at School" resolution calling for, among many other things, "disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family."
Calling it an act of liberation from Western oppression is what's (relatively) new.
Stating that collective care should happen "to the extent that mothers, parents and children are comfortable" is a curious touch.
The recently introduced framework for the "Culturally Sustaining-Responsive Education" that the resolution affirms seeks a transformation of the way students are taught with a heavy emphasis on "power and privilege," and "decentering dominant ideologies" nysed.gov/common/nysed/f…
Which fact you select to put in the headline colors the tone of the whole piece. The truth is: the definition is not uniform, the reporting is not close to comprehensive, the overall numbers are so low that what amounts to statistical noise can be made to seem large
Odd to juxtapose these two poll findings against one another. I think the difference in wording -- "legitimately" -- accounts for the difference, and suggests that it's more of a "not my President" phenomenon at work.
The contrast suggests that the typical Trump voter sees the expansion of mail-in voting as inherently illegitimate at the macro-level, without necessarily glomming on to "stolen election" conspiracy theories
It's self-evident that universal mail-in voting diminishes election security relative to in person voting by some significant margin
There is no single term for all the academic discourses that define themselves in opposition to "Eurocentric cisheteropatriarchy". Thus, the need for a shorthand -- "Successor Ideology" -- to encompass all of it. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Nor a term for the transition of such discourses from a largely self-referential body of texts to a series of real social movements situated in the professions seeking to "dismantle Eurocentric structures" in schools and hospitals and corporations
It will be a few years before your nurses have been trained to cease "privileging certain forms of evidence and ways of knowing" in favor of those that "dismantle Eurocentric structures" -- but it will happen, and the results will be noticeable.