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What We’re Reading This Week: February 7, 2020
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Our Spring Magazine Is Here!
The latest issue of Teaching Tolerance is now available online, and copies should begin arriving by mail next week! We’re proud to share stories about families uniting to fight racism in schools, advocates working to ensure no student goes hungry, scholars analyzing the impact of school curricula and more.
- Responding to Hate and Bias in the West
- Why Lunch Shaming Persists
- Ending Curriculum Violence
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Black History Month: Celebrating Black Liberation Movements
This Black History Month, we’re encouraging educators to recognize and teach that Black history includes narratives that don’t focus solely on trauma. While it’s imperative to teach about the realities of racial oppression, it’s just as important to engage students with the many ways Black people have consistently and powerfully resisted white supremacy. For the next week, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite resources for celebrating Black liberation movements.
- Black History Month: Teaching Beyond Slavery
- Black Lives Matter Week of Action
- Resistance Means More Than Rebellion
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Teach This: Native American Appropriation at the Super Bowl
This weekend’s Super Bowl offers an opportunity to talk with students about appropriation and identity.
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How Are You Teaching Black History?
We hope you’ll join us—this February and year-round—in teaching Black history beyond trauma and helping students recognize the brilliance, strength and love this history represents. Here’s why that’s so important.
- Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History
- Ending Curriculum Violence
- Black History Month Teaching: Miseducation or Empowerment?
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Literacy as Resistance
This image group features portraits of Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, who all learned to read and write while they were enslaved. Each used their gifts to help end slavery.
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Enslaved People at the Capitol
This image shows a group of enslaved men and children in front of the U.S. Capitol after much of it burned down in 1814.
January 28, 2020
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Chains
These images show how enslavers used chains as a way to take freedom away from enslaved people. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.
January 28, 2020
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Music and Customs
These images show enslaved people singing as part of their work and recreational lives.
January 28, 2020
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Resistance Through Escape
These images show enslaved people escaping their enslavers. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.
January 28, 2020