Understanding and Teaching American Slavery: Jay, Bethany and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 326 pp., $34.95 ISBN 978-0-299-30664-9 Publication Date: February 2016doi:10.1080/03612759.2017.1255014Jeffrey T. Coster...
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“By teaching the history of slavery, we help to guard against humanity’s most vicious impulses, and by honouring the victims of slavery, we restore some measure of dignity to those who were so mercilessly stripped of it,” he said. Dismantle the foundations General Assembly PresidentCsaba K...
the American movement, like its British counterpart, was united in the need for a single moral standard, and the word “chastity” figured frequently in the literature. Because Social Purists believed in woman’s need to resist sexual subjection by men, the movement ...
The thing is: while I have been teaching about issues of race and racism for nearly 20 years now, this viral curriculum is not actually my classroom curriculum, which was created for all students, not just white students. Students of a wide variety of racial backgrounds have cited this curri...
To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is 'American Slavery.' I shall see this day and its popula...
William Clark ofLewis and Clark,Francis Scott Key, and otherFounding Fathers, many American icons were complicit in upholding the institution of slavery.Washington,Jefferson,James MadisonandAaron Burr, among others, sexually abused enslaved females working in their households and had oft-overlooked bi...
A Stranger and Devalued Professionals Featured/1 Comment In all aspects of societies’ existence, teaching has a unique mission to sustain them in an ongoing social transformation accompanied by risks or dangers. The task commences from the pre-school towards higher learning institutions, preparing in...
“Oil and gas are abiotic, [and] can be found deep below the surface of the earth in most parts of the world and in very large amounts,”wroteVinod Dar inAbiotic Oil and Gas In general, it is true that wars waged by the US are mostly for American control of natural resources, terr...
There are currently 18 American states that restrict teaching about race, diversity, equity, and inclusion in children’s classrooms. This means that no one in those schools can talk about the factors in society that lead to or indicate racial inequity—for example, the fact that head teachers...