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Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education

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Full Title:

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education

Contributors:

By (Author) Jesse Hagopian

ISBN:

9798888902950

Publisher:

Haymarket Books

Imprint:

Haymarket Books

Publication Date:

23rd April 2025

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

History of education
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Social discrimination and social justice
Social and cultural history

Dewey:

370.89

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

320

Dimensions:

Width 6mm, Height 8mm

Description

In the face of relentless attacks on antiracist education, a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent call to action to defend education.
In just the last few years, scores of states have introduced or passed legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about structural racism and other forms of oppression. Books have been cut from curricula and pulled from school library shelves. Teachers have been fired and threatened with discipline.
, at stake is our democracy, not to mention the annihilation of entire systems of knowledge that challenge the status quo. As Hagopian shows by exploring the origins, philosophy, and manifestations of these attacks, the Rights effort to regulate knowledge is an attempt to maintain its power over the American capitalist system, now and into the future.
Yet the struggle for a liberatory education has a long history in the United States, from the days when it was illegal for Black people to be literate, to the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, to Black Lives Matter at School today. Teachers, students, and their allies are already building a movement in the classroom, on campus, and in the streets to defend antiracist education.

Reviews

Praise for Black Lives Matter at School
"The educators, students, and community activists whose stories are documented here are fighting for a transformative vision of what public schools can be, and the grassroots efforts we will need to get there. Black Lives Matter at School is an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system."
Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
"Toni Morrison reminds us: 'If you cant imagine it, you cant have it.' This book helps us to imagine Black Lives Mattering in schools. With accounts from teachers across the country doing the work, along with student interviews, poems, posters, and historical background, this is a primer for anti-racist educators to see the way forward in terms of reshaping school curriculum, diversifying teacher hiring, and transforming school discipline."
Jeanne Theoharis, author, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Part documentary, part guide to this movement for racial & educational justice on school campuses
Seattle Times

Author Bio

Jesse Hagopian is a member of the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and teaches Ethnic Studies at Seattles Garfield High School. Jesse is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, the co-editor of the book Teaching for Black Lives, and the editor of the book More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing. Jesse is a recipient of the 2013 Secondary School Teacher of the Year award and the Special Achievement Courageous Leadership award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. In 2015, Jesse received the Seattle/King County NAACP Service Award. Jesse serves as the Director of the Black Education Matters Student Activist Award.

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