Educating as political and antiracist  20970

For black folks teaching—educating—was fundamentally political because it was rooted in anti-racist struggle …

We learned that our devotion to learning, to a life of the mind, was a counter-hegemonic act, a fundamental way to resist every strategy of white racist colonization. Though they did not define or articulate these practices in theoretical terms, my teachers were enacting a revolutionary pedagogy of resistance that was profoundly anti-colonial. Within these segregated schools, black children who were deemed exceptional, gifted, were given special care. Teachers worked with us and for us to ensure that we would fulfill our intellectual destiny and by so doing uplift the race. My teachers were on a mission.

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