Little Rock Nine members slam restrictions on AP African American Studies course in Arkansas

https://www.businessinsider.com/little-rock-nine-arkansas-ap-african-american-studies-huckabee-sanders-2023-8

#LittleRockNine #APCourseRestrictions #AfricanAmericanStudies #Arkansas #HuckabeeSanders #Education #Politics #News

Course on African
American history denied
Arkansas protests

#apclasses #africanamericanstudies #arkansas #haiku #poetry

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ap-african-american-studies-canceled-minute-decision-arkansas/story?id=102261259

Arkansas Education Department gives culture war excuses for dumping AP African American Studies.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/08/14/arkansas-department-of-education-gives-culture-war-excuses-for-dumping-ap-african-american-studies #Arkansas #AfricanAmericanStudies #BlackHistory #Prohibited #Education #Teachers #Schools #CultureWars

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Tiffany E Barber (4/4)

*Additional Reading:

https://tiffanyebarber.com/

Dissertation
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a4c117e1-857d-34f6-b580-cfede7716e24

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Tiffany E Barber (3/4)

*Notable Quote: In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell talks about three different archetypes: mavens, connectors, and salespeople. Mavens thrive on ideas and information, connectors see people as one of the world’s greatest resources, and salespeople are masters of persuasion. I’m a maven-connector mix. [...] I focus on ideas and people

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Tiffany E Barber (2/4)

*Key Publications: Contributor to An OutKast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender and the PostModern South (2021); Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades (2019) and Afrofuturism 2.0:The Rise of Astro-Blackness (2015)

*Major Contributions: Focus on "abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film, and the ethics of representation of artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world"

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

28. Tiffany E Barber (1/4)

*Occupation: Scholar, curator, critic, retired dancer

*Born: Oklahoma City, OK

*Education: Fordham University, New York City (BFA); University of Southern California, Los Angeles (MPAS); University of Rochester, New York City (PhD)

*Major Accomplishments: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize (2022)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Robin D. G. Kelley (4/4)

*Notable Quote: "Race was never just a matter of how you look, it's about how people assign meaning to how you look."

*Additional Reading:

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/robin-kelley-1962/

https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:4f74d504-1095-34ba-9ba0-eb9873157b51

https://youtu.be/9s6x3OpVYxw

https://youtu.be/mBIpCGJC5Jo

https://youtu.be/g1X4jo18Ibo

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Robin D. G. Kelley (3/4)

*Major Accomplishments: Guggenheim Fellowship (2014); Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA (2011); first African American historian to hold the Harmsworth Chair of American History, Oxford University (2009-2010)

*Major Contributions: Focus on "history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; Black intellectuals; music and visual culture; Surrealism, Marxism, among other things"

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Robin D. G. Kelley (2/4)

*Key Publications: Black Bodies Swinging: A Historical Autopsy (TBP 12/2024); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012); Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009); Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Robin D. G. Kelley (1/4)

*Occupation: Educator, historian, writer, essayist

*Also Known As: Robin Davis Gibran Kelley

*Born: March 14, 1962, New York City, NY

*Education: California State University, Long Beach (BA); University of California, Los Angeles, (MA, PhD)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Ta-Nehisi Coates (3/3)

*Notable Quote: "I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential."

*Additional Reading:

https://ta-nehisicoates.com/

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/

https://www.c-span.org/person/?41363/TaNehisiCoates

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Ta-Nehisi Coates (2/3)

*Key Publications: (cont.) Black Panther series and Captain America series (graphic novels)

*Major Contributions: Writings focus on social, political and cultural issues

*Major Accomplishments: National Book Award (2015); MacArthur Fellow (2015); Stowe Prize Winner (2015); George Polk Award in Journalism (2014)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Ta-Nehisi Coates (1/3)

*Occupation: Writer, journalist

*Born: September 30, 1975, Baltimore, MD

*Education: Attended Howard University, Washington, DC

*Key Publications: The Water Dancer (2019); We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017); Between The World And Me (2015); The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (2008)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Ta-Nehisi Coates (2/3)

*Key Publications: (cont.) Black Panther series and Captain America series (graphic novels)

*Major Contributions: Writings focus on social, political and cultural issues

*Major Accomplishments: National Book Award (2015); MacArthur Fellow (2015); Stowe Prize Winner (2015); George Polk Award in Journalism (2014)

The Guardian has published the most recent letter against the censorship of intersectionality and Black feminism in the AP African American Studies course by College Board. Please distribute and sign on!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/anti-woke-censorship-colleges-open-letter

#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Leslie Kay Jones (3/4)

*Major Accomplishments: Co-director of the Digital Sociology Collective (with Drs. Rachel Durso and Francesca Tripodi); Andrea Mitchell Center for Study of Democracy Fellowship (2018); Price Lab for Digital Humanities Fellowship (2017)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Leslie Kay Jones (2/4)

*Major Contributions: Focuses on collective mobilization (via race and gender, critical race theory, and online social media); teaches qualitative and computer assisted research methods, particularly digital ethnography and content analysis; determined that black social media publics are harbingers of racial progress

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanAmericanStudies

Leslie Kay Jones (1/4)

*Occupation: Educator, sociologist

*Born:  ~1988

*Education: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PhD)

*Key Publications: Journal Article - BlackLivesMatter: An Analysis of the Movement as Social Drama (Humanity and Society, 2019)

Over 3000 signatories so far.

"As academics, artists, advocates, policy-makers, and concerned persons from different parts of the world, we emphatically oppose the attacks being waged on educational curricula in the United States and elsewhere against intersectionality, critical race theory, Black feminism, queer theory, and other frameworks that address structural inequality. We join the thousands of signatories who have opposed censoring critical content in public and higher education. We also agree with the 30 Black LGBTQ organizations that have denounced the “relentless attacks that have led to book banning, curriculum censorship, politically motivated purges of educators, and an exodus of skilled teachers.” …

"When the College Board finally made public its long-awaited African American Studies course on February 1, students were left with a watered-down curriculum that expunged key lessons, scholarship, and course goals from previous drafts of the course. Contemporary issues such as structural racism, Black Lives Matter, reparations, and prison abolition—issues that resurfaced during 2020’s reckoning with anti-Black racism and increased student demand for African American studies—were reduced or eliminated. Lessons and course goals pertaining to intersectionality, Black queer studies, and Black feminism had been removed entirely or downgraded to untested optional material, subject to state and local censors …

"Contrary to “anti-woke” propaganda and the College Board’s conclusion, intersectionality is a vibrant and organic conceptualization of historical and social dynamics. In its most basic form, intersectionality is a prism that uncovers how structures of subordination often interact, exacerbating the problem-solving challenges faced by those who are multiply marginalized …

"We cannot expect anyone—students or ourselves—to understand problems we are no longer permitted to name or to prepare for a future we cannot imagine. The fight for our ideas, our language, and our history is critical to the fight for our lives. Thus, we demand that the College Board restore critical concepts, scholarship, and frameworks to the African American Studies course, and to resist pending demands from other states to bend to their “anti-woke” orthodoxy."

#Intersectionality #BlackLivesMatter #AntiBlackness
#CriticalRaceTheory #BlackFeminism #QueerTheory
#AfricanAmericanStudies #CollegeBoard

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/open-letter-on-fighting-anti-woke-censorship-of-intersectionality-and-black-feminism

Also at:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/anti-woke-censorship-colleges-open-letter