transformative teacher

teach freedom, so that our youth can critically & creatively face reality & discover how to transform their world

[sister-shakur]

picks up a book with a black princess because yes i’m an adult

[buzzfeedau]

okay Superman / Wonder Woman Annual #2, okay

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[alinapruitt]

Pretty much.

[cbcdiversity]

34 YA Novels With A POC Protagonist You Have To Read

Add more color to your shelf with these YA novels.

Must-read diverse YA from @buzzfeedbooks!

[salon]

Watch SNL‘s Sasheer Zamata mock clueless white-dude privilege in painfully hilarious video

[caribrevolution]

This just made me really happy 😊

[sevenwoneight-deactivated201607]

always reblog this picture. Always.

[enterheavenalive]

An iconic image

[fullpraxisnow]

[jessehimself]

Jay Z, Will Smith to tackle Emmett Till's racially motivated 1955 murder for HBO

Jay-Z and Will Smith team with TV producer Aaron Kaplan for an HBO miniseries about the death of an African American teen who was murdered in 1955.

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[alinapruitt]

Mapping the History of Lynching, starting in Texas

In honor of the birthday of Ida B. Wells, my partner in life and anti-racist pedagogy is sharing a project in its infant stages to map out, name, and remember the humans murdered by lynching in the State of Texas.

If you are interesting in helping with the online research to find the names of the people who were killed and the locations in which they were killed, please let me or him know. Most of it is slow archival work, but it is easy to pick up.

There are other projects of a similar sort, especially the Equal Justice Initiative out of Alabama. Their project is massive and across the country. A Red Record of Texas is focused on the individuals and putting their names back into history, and putting the sites of their murder back into collective memory.

In Texas, there are many who see lynching as a form of Texas Justice, with romantics ideas of cowboys and lawmen and the wicked carpet baggers. This is history is taught in our schools and lived and, like Ida said, the way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

[alinapruitt]

This article explores how blogging served as a teaching and learning tool about diversity and inequity in English education. It analyzes the blog writings of two preservice teachers who used their blogs as a space to encourage themselves and their peers to consider racial, linguistic, and other forms of diversity and inequality, and what these issues meant for English education. The analysis advances understandings of the potentials and limits of blogs to foster dialogue and knowledge building among preservice teachers in relation to diversity and inequality in education.

[alinapruitt]

"I had to borrow your language because mine was stolen. You can't expect me to speak your history wholly while mine is Broken. These words are spoken  by someone who fed up with the Eurocentric ideal of the season and the reason I speak a composite version of your language is mine was ripped away along with my history..." Jamila Lyiscott

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Here is a list of readings that educators can use to broach conversations in the classroom about the horrendous events that unfolded in Charleston, South Carolina this week. These readings provide valuable information about the history of racial violence in this country and contextualize the history of race relations in South Carolina and the United States in general. They also offer insights on race, racial identities, global white supremacy and black resistance. All readings are arranged by date of publication. This list is not meant to be exhaustive; please check out the #Charlestonsyllabus hashtag and the Goodreads List for additional reading suggestions.

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

[alinapruitt]

The (incomplete) Axes of Oppression 

[debbiereese]

An Inclusive Summer Reading List for Kids/Young Adults!

[diversityinya]

10 Asian Pacific American YA Authors to Know

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Swati Avasthi

Author of the award-winning Split and critically acclaimed Chasing Shadows

swatiavasthi.com | @SwatiAvasthi

Melissa de la Cruz

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Blue Bloods series, The Ring and the Crown, and Witches of East End, and more

melissa-delacruz.com | @MelissadelaCruz | Tumblr

Andrew Fukuda

Author of The Hunt trilogy and the critically acclaimed Crossing

andrewfukuda.com | @andrewfukuda

Jenny Han

New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty series

dearjennyhan.com | @jennyhan | Facebook

Malinda Lo

Author of Adaptation and Inheritance, William C. Morris Award finalist for Ash, and co-founder of Diversity in YA

malindalo.com | @malindalo | Tumblr

Ellen Oh

Author of the Prophecy trilogy, and #WeNeedDiverseBooks Campaign co-founder

ellenoh.com | @elloecho | Tumblr

Cindy Pon

Author of Silver Phoenix, Fury of the Phoenix, the forthcoming Serpentine (Month9Books, 2015), and co-founder of Diversity in YA

cindypon.com | @cindypon | Tumblr

Padma Venkatraman

Author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novels A Time to Dance, Climbing the Stairs, and Island’s End

padmasbooks.com

Gene Luen Yang

Author of the National Book Award finalist and LA Times Book Prize winner Boxers and Saints, the Printz Award-winning and National Book Award finalist American Born Chinese, and co-author of Dark Horse Comics’ Avatar: The Last Airbender

geneyang.com | @geneluenyang

Laurence Yep

Author of dozens of books for children and young adults including the Gold Mountain Chronicles, winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and two-time Newbery Honor winner

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