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Protest against white supremacy, February 2017. Photo: Flickr/cool revolution.

White Fragility, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, and the Weight of History

July 27, 2017July 31, 2017 Guest Poster academia, ethnic studies, pedagogy, race, racism, racist ideas, teaching

by Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella On July 3, The Boston Globe published a controversial, if predictable, op-ed entitled “In

The Enduring Controversies of the N-Word

June 30, 2017July 3, 2017 Tyler Parry digital media, language, race, racism

Hearing the N-word uttered in popular media is rather familiar in the United States. A version of the word is

On Hip Hop and Growing Up in Philadelphia: An Interview with MK Asante

June 24, 2017June 26, 2017 Darryl Robertson #HipHopSeries, hip hop, music, pedagogy, Philadelphia, teaching

This month I interviewed MK Asante. Asante is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, and professor. He studied at the University of

African Liberation Day, 1972. Photo: District of Columbia Public Library.

Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College

May 17, 2017May 20, 2017 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, education

Over the past several years, scholars such as Ibram X. Kendi, Martha Biondi, Russell Rickford, and others have produced scholarship

American University. Photo: Wikimedia/Samschoe.

The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum

May 16, 2017May 18, 2017 Jordanna Matlon education, education reform, racism, teaching

Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students