#teaching while black

[lamajaoscura]

University launches investigation after a Black professor was asked by campus security to prove she lived in her own house

Danielle Morgan, a Black assistant professor at Santa Clara University, was dancing in her room on Saturday morning when she said she was interrupted by a knock on her door.

[lazyfredricjameson]

Teaching While Black

Demo for “Teaching While Black” a video series that explores the stories of black educators working in Chicago’s public school classrooms.

[jvvvne]

“Simply recruiting more teachers of color only gets them in the door; we must pay equal attention to creating the conditions to keep them.”

[jvvvne]

This idea that a teacher need not learn about Asian bodies because having their presence in a classroom is enough becomes fraught with problems. Two white female students once even visited my office to inform me, given their history of having taught many African American Students, that Elaine Richardson (and myself since I upheld Richardson's position) did not fully understand how much better schools are for black people now and, as such, Richardson and I were distorting the truth. These two women even claimed to relate better (than Richardson and me) to African Americans given their Italian and Irish backgrounds, since they, after all, have experienced the same discriminations as blacks

Carmen Kynard, “Teaching While Black: Witnessing and Countering Disciplinary Whiteness, Racial Violence, and University Race-Management”  (5)

[evsteezy]

Blackout ready ✊🏾⚫️

[blacknerdproblems]

A year and a half later and Levy’s office is now decked out in posters of Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, and Biggie while his desks are filled with Logic installed computers, MIDI pads, and keyboards with a corner complete with a mic, Beats headphones, and sound buffers. He now has a fully functioning studio in place so any and all students (not just members of the after-school club) can come spit whatever lyrics they need to, instead of sitting down in a traditional counseling setting that makes many young people feel uncomfortable. As Levy puts it, “The studio has become a culturally sensitive space for the school community to come write and record tracks about various emotional struggles they face. It has become an emotional outlet, a sort of space for healing, that they often do not have within schools.”

Ja-Quan Greene,  HIP-HOP IS HELPING NYC STUDENTS COPE WITH LIFE’S HURDLES

[blacknerdproblems]

The birthplace of Hip-Hop has a secret that they’re not trying to keep secret anymore. Students love Hip-Hop! Students want counseling! Students fully embrace rap, poetry, and spoken word as ways to sort through their emotions! Yes, my friends, you all just read that correctly. The kids want an outlet! Hip-Hop is the answer.

Brace ya’selves, I’m ’bout to drop an amazing story on you right now. Currently the New Visions High School for Advanced Math and Science II (AMS II) is championing an after-school program that is literally changing the lives of dozens of impoverished, under-served, under-represented, under-funded, and over-critiqued young men and women of color.

The program was launched by AMS II under the direct guidance of Columbia doctoral student and Hip-Hop artist, Ian Levy. He was brought in as the 9th grade counselor but soon realized that the student population was hungry for a Hip-Hop after-school club, so he did what any educator and fan of #bars would do: he asked his principal to make it happen.

Read on here!