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- Between 1740 and 1867, anti-literacy laws in the United States prohibited enslaved, and sometimes free, Black Americans from learning to read or write. White elites viewed Black literacy as a threat to the institution of slavery – it facilitated escape, uprisings, and the sharing of information and ideas among enslaved people.
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Jun 17, 2020 · Following Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831, legislation to limit Black people's access to education intensified. But enslaved people found ways to learn.
- Colette Coleman
White elites viewed Black literacy as a threat to the institution of slavery – it facilitated escape, uprisings, and the sharing of information and ideas among enslaved people. Indeed, literacy undermined the false foundation slavery was built on: the intellectual inferiority and inhumanity of African-descended people.
Nov 9, 2020 · In this moment in 2020, we recognize the need to amplify and center research that critiques anti-Black racist ideologies that oppress literacy learners and educators across contexts. The recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have fueled an unprecedented national and global call to affirm and attest that unless Black ...
- Eurydice Bauer, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Guofang Li, Aria Razfar
- 2020
Feb 14, 2022 · Founded by historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926, Black History Month was created to pay homage to the tragedies survived by Black Americans and their notable triumphs in lieu of mounting systematic oppression and atrocities committed in law, politics, education and health that still reign relevant today.
article as an approach where Black people play an active role in highlighting, deconstructing, and addressing patterns of media injustice, and engage in Black digital activism to raise awareness of the crisis of racial injustice. literacies 3 and Black digital activism (Mcilwain, 2020) to disrupt the media’s role in anti-Black
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Dec 8, 2017 · The Oppressor’s Bookshelf. As formerly enslaved Americans battled to become literate, the only books available to them were written by white supremacists and condescending abolitionists. By...
Grounded in Black feminist theory, this article describes a longitudinal study of the critical consciousness development of two young Black women as they engaged in distinct literacy practices to navigate and resist racial oppression in high school.
