One day after the College Board unveiled revisions to its debut African American studies class, debate intensified within academia and beyond over the decision to drop from the course plan various lessons and authors disliked by conservative politicians.
“People are rightly worried about academic freedom these days,” said David Coleman, chief executive of the College Board. He pledged that the College Board would post writings from Crenshaw and many others, from all parts of the political spectrum, on an AP portal accessible to teachers and students around the country.He said he regrets any misunderstandings about the rollout of the course plan. “I want no ifs, ands or buts about our stance,” he said.
College Board officials provided The Washington Post with a list of scores of texts for which it has sought copyright permission to use as source material. It has a green light to distribute to classes Crenshaw’s 1991 article “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” It is awaiting a decision on the 2014 article by Ta-Nehisi Coates “The Case for Reparations.
At the heart of the controversy are three issues: Whether DeSantis or his allies influenced it, why secondary readings from authors like Crenshaw were omitted, and why certain lessons in contemporary issues were eliminated.The College Board has provided documents showing that key decisions about the course were made well before, based on their view of an early version of the plan.
The lesson plan, officials say, is influenced by the guidance of professors and the experience of teachers in how much time should be devoted to particular topics. The course starts with five weeks on the origins of the African diaspora, delving into early African empires, city-states and politics. It then explores history and culture through the transatlantic slave trade to the 20th-century civil rights movement and beyond.At the end, the course devotes three weeks to a research project.
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