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Original Sins
We Are So Dangerous
We were hanging on every word during our class last month with Eve L. Ewing on Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.
You’ll realize why if you read the excerpt and listen to the audiogram below. Then click on the button to read more.
Our young folks are experiencing the vanguard of everything that we know is wrong and broken about this society, and therefore they bring with them a profound expertise about what it could look like to imagine something different.
My insurgent and absurd dream in this moment is that even as things could be and can be, and in many cases are, so hopeless in so many of our schools, that this will be the time for these conflagrations of new possibility to spark and to emerge.
And that the way that they are making it so evident how scared they are of us, how terrified they are of these relationships, how terrified they are of young people loving themselves and each other, how terrified they are of teachers understanding the profoundly political and radical nature of this work, they are tipping their hand.
They are letting us know.We are so dangerous. In case you didn’t already know, now you know. — Eve L. Ewing
Finally, young people can learn about the widespread, devastating practice of cities sacrificing Black communities for interstate highway construction.
In this book of historical fiction for middle school, Stone draws on her own family history in Rondo, St. Paul.
Stone showcases stories of resistance and how people did all they could to remain connected after the town was destroyed.
Historian Ashley D. Farmer spokein our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class series about Queen Mother Audley Moore (1898–1997), one of the most influential activists and thinkers of the 20th century about Black nationalism and reparations.
In appreciation for your story about any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project website, we can send you one of the books pictured above, thanks to donations by publishers and individual donors.
A History Teach-In, in defense of history and museums with Kellie Carter Jackson and many more historians and artists, in person on the National Mall, October 26, Washington, D.C.
Teachers are under attack for teaching truthfully about U.S. history. Please donate so that we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons and resources, and defend teachers’ right to use them.
