In the wake of a year that’s been plagued with book bans, book burnings, and right-wing censorship of all kinds, why is our American history being banned? Prof. Roderick Ferguson joined michelebgoodwin’s OnTheIssuesPod to break it all down.
And just, there’s just so much power behind just looking into these archives to be able to understand the American story.
And then I was talking to a friend of mine who is a slavery historian, and she says, you know, there aren’t many stories like that because, you know, people just didn’t want to disclose that kind of trauma, right? So, that’s a unique story, in and of itself, but a unique story that is typical of what was going on, right? Would that kind of story make it into the classroom because, you know, there’s no way you can’t then bring a critique of the slave system as a system of rampant sexual...
So, I’m wondering how we understand that because this isn’t just high school, which, you know, this is banning Toni Morrison from high school reading is, itself, such an incredible disservice, but when you think about AP African American studies, the idea is that you are no longer within just the space of high school. This is elevated thinking.
It is a moment to return to the work with even more vigor, right? So, you know, how do we use this to shore up American education, and also to make the case that, look, you know, the work that we do, the work around race, the work around gender, around feminism, the work that is critical of like the big entities of the state and capitalism, the histories of slavery and empire, these things are part of the public good, you know? They are part of the public good.
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