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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (4/4)

*Notable Quote: "The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'"

*Additional Reading:
https://scholars.duke.edu/person/eduardo.bonilla.silva

https://www.asanet.org/eduardo-bonilla-silva/

https://youtu.be/xAYMWPWUUGM

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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2/4)

*Key Publications: Racism without Racists Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (2017); White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism [with Ashley W Doane] (2013); The State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the USA [with Moon Kie Jung and Joao Vargas] (2011); White Logic, White Methods: Race, Epistemology, and the Social Sciences [with Tukufu Zuberi] (2008)

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E Patrick Johnson (5/5)

*Major Contributions: Focuses on Black Gender and Sexuality Studies, Performance studies, Ethnography, Oral Histories, Spirituality; founder and director of the Black Arts Initiative at Northwestern; Quare Studies (addresses the concerns and needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people across issues of race, gender, class, and other subject positions)

*Additional Reading:

https://epatrickjohnson.com/

https://sweetteafilm.com/about

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Kimberlé W Crenshaw (3/3)

*Major Accomplishments: C.-E.A. Winslow medal (2023), AALS Award for Lifetime Service (2021), Co-founder of AAPF

*Notable Quote: "Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity."

*Additional Reading:

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/kimberle-crenshaw-black-history-uncensored-rcna68880

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/crenshaw-kimberle-williams-1959/

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Kimberlé W Crenshaw (2/3)

*Major Contributions: Critical Race Theory (concept that race is a social construct, and racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also embedded in legal systems and policies) and Intersectionality (ways in which systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other discrimination intersect to create unique dynamics and effects)

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8. Kimberlé W Crenshaw (1/3)

*Occupation: Law professor, scholar, writer, civil rights advocate

*Born: 1959, in Canton, OH

*Education: Cornell University (BA), Harvard Law (JD), University of Wisconsin Law (LLM)

*Key Publications: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (1996), Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Over Policed and Under Protected (2016), On Intersectionality: Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw (Dec 2023)

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Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor (2/3)

*Major Contributions: Focus on racism and public policy, inequality, Black politics, radical politics and social movements; contributing writer at The New Yorker

*Major Accomplishments: MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History (2020); please see https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor#searchresults

*Interview: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: What We Can Learn From the Black Feminists of the Combahee River Collective
https://youtu.be/NfaNJ7ktIqA

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This is shameful

https://popular.info/p/update-college-board-scrubs-website?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Alice Walker (2/3)

*Major Contributions: Black Arts Movement, writer of novels, non-fiction, short stories, essays, poetry, and children's books

*Major Accomplishments: First African American woman to win Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for The Color Purple), see also: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/alice-walker-biography-and-awards/2894/

*Notable Quote: "Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."

*Additional Reading: https://alicewalkersgarden.com/

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The third mini-bio from the slashed AP AA Studies list is out. Fabio Rojas is one of the ones that I was unfamiliar with so I enjoyed learning about him. Now he has another fan.

If you are having difficulty finding the toots, look up #AAStudies or #AfricanAmercanStudies.

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Amir Baraka (cont)

*Notable Quote: “Art is whatever makes you proud to be human."

*Additional Reading: https://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/261101520/amiri-baraka-poet-and-co-founder-of-black-arts-movement-dies-at-79

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1. Amiri Baraka

*Occupation: Writer, playwright, poet, activist

*AKA: Leroi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka

*Born: October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey

*Died: January 9, 2014 in Newark, New Jersey

*Education: Rutgers University, Howard University

*Key Publications: Dutchman, Blues People: Negro Music in White America, The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka

*Major Contributions: Founded Black Arts Movement (60s), New Jersey Poet Laureate

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The expunged writers and scholars include Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, a law professor at Columbia, which touts her work as “foundational in critical race theory”; Roderick Ferguson, a Yale professor who has written about queer social movements; and Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author who has made the case for reparations for slavery. Gone, too, is bell hooks, the writer who shaped discussions about race, feminism and class.
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