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Educators who have written about combating anti-Black racism:
Please share links with me, and I will make a thread of resources to signal boost. #BlackLivesMatter
Please share links with me, and I will make a thread of resources to signal boost. #BlackLivesMatter
I'll start with a recent favorite from @profnicolej, Meseret Hailu, and Jamaal Sharif Matthews: Normalizing Black Girls' Humanity in Mathematics Classrooms
https://threadsmentorship.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Joseph-et-al_Humanizing-Black-Girls.pdf
https://threadsmentorship.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Joseph-et-al_Humanizing-Black-Girls.pdf
We have some serious miseducation about the history of Slavery in the U.S., as @mdawriter wrote about in @TheAtlantic a couple of years back: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/02/what-kids-are-really-learning-about-slavery/552098/
If you ever wonder about why school desegregation didn't "work", @ATErickson's detailed case study of #Nashville -- one of the "best cases" in the South -- offers many insights: https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2016/8/2/21098809/race-and-education-in-nashville-author-ansley-erickson-on-the-hidden-policy-choices-that-sustain-ine
If you wonder what is going on with disproportionate discipline of Black girls, @MoniqueWMorris's work is essential: https://zora.medium.com/we-need-to-stop-criminalizing-school-age-black-girls-236ca856b607
Generally, Black children do not get granted the grace of childhood in the same way white children do. If you want to read about the dehumanizing phenomenon of adultification of Black children, read @tedancy's work https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6209-842-8_10
When teachers don't address their own internalized racism and bias, they interactionally isolate Black students in instruction. @DrDorindaCA's work on "spotlighting" and "ignoring" was illuminating for me: http://usvshate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Everyday-Antiracism_On-Spotlighting-and-Ignoring-Racial-Group-Members-in-the-Classroom.pdf
My own children have observed how dress codes seem more strictly enforced for Black students in their schools. Research confirms this: https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/26/17274996/dress-codes-uniforms-black-girls-race-school-discipline-disparity
Black children encounter bias not only in the history curriculum. It is also present in literature. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's brilliant book THE DARK FANTASTIC uncovers this, trying to imagine alternatives for children's lit: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-new-hope-ebony-elizabeth-thomass-vision-for-the-dark-fantastic/
And the microaggressions in STEM are real and intense. Black students' competence and belonging is always in question, as documented by @RelationshipGAP https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/0002831211423972?casa_token=migKVzf6ugEAAAAA:bUE72NLTHryxUKY8jriL1kDX6K0PwymDV5joiYJdzEGZFgW39PR4f61uASGSDJ6iAQ-RzueH1_oSPA
Non-optical allyship thread https://twitter.com/mireillecharper/status/1266335563197501440?s=20
Probably one of the most poignant pieces I have read: School as the Site of Black Suffering by Michael Dumas https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2013.850412?casa_token=lyNcWtvPR98AAAAA:JANK5p7S_htDM5SpTxLMDoWgabtKfc_q3IM2zDPY76JwDrB7tCDrSCbMiX8DIdiCBJy0Ooi71cHrdA
Selecting from among the many important works of @MilnerHRich is a humbling task. His book "Rac(e)ing to Class" addresses educators about addressing race and poverty in the classroom: https://books.google.com/books/about/Rac_e_ing_to_Class.html?id=Q7LErQEACAAJ but follow him and read his stuff.
