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"When Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children was first published, it was heralded nationwide as a seminal new analysis of race in the classroom. It has gone on to become required reading for teachers, parents, and administrators alike. Featuring a new introduction by Delpit as well as framing essays by Herbert Kohl, Charles M. Payne, and Patricia Lesesne, this revolutionary work develops ideas about ways teachers can be better 'cultural transmitters.'...
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The school careers of two teenage girls who lived across town from each other––one black, one white––were altered by a court-ordered desegregation plan for Durham, NC in 1970. LaHoma and Cindy both found themselves at the same high school from different sides of a court-ordered racial "balancing act." This plan thrust each of them involuntarily out of their comfort zones and into new racial landscapes. Their experiences, recounted in alternating...
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A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout
Wise Black women have known for centuries that the blues have been a platform for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to survival, and an essential form of resistance, healing, and learning. In her highly anticipated follow-up to the widely acclaimed Pushout on the criminalization of black girls in schools,...
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