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Nonblack educators who want to understand how state violence against Black ppl is foundational to our education system, here's some suggested readings: 1/
Hartman's body of work: Articulates the ways Black ppl are constructed as asking for violence within schooling (ie "reform of the Negro"), the archive & the nonblack psyche--and how they resist that construction https://myelms.umd.edu/courses/1224150/files/46327971/download?download_frd=1 2/
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me: If you haven't read it yet, now's the time. 3/
Jared Sexton's Properties of Coalition: Asians, Blacks, and the Politics of Policing. Asians will gain from this text a much deeper understanding of the particular ways they reinforce antiblackness and state violence against Black people through our rhetoric about "solidarity" 4/
Monique Morris's Pushout: helps us as educators come to grips with all the myriad of ways Black girls are pushed out of schools and into prisons 5/
Charlene Curruthers's Unapologetic: A Black Queer Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements: An extremely necessary intervention in movement organizing strategies that helps us to understand the uniquely insightful position of Black queer womxn as the leaders in our movements 6/
Bettina Love's We Want to Do More than Survive: investigates the interweaving of state violence with the most basic aspects of schooling--and provides a framework for undoing state violence present in our school system. end/
adding one more: Eve Ewing's Ghosts in the Schoolyard. Bureaucratic violence is real and devastating
a few last ones: Fred Moten, Ed Brockenbrough, and Michael Dumas all outline the ways education, and not necessarily in the classroom, enables âfugitivity,ââwe become stops on the underground railroad. Or it can be the instrument of black suffering itself, as Dumas shows
