Education as Activism



Curator's Notes:

US public schools fail Black children with such regularity that it doesn't even make headlines. In fact, much of the discourse in the mainstream around this failure links it to so-called “Black pathology” — students who don't want to learn, parents who don't care about their child's education, and communities that are lost causes. In this narrative, Black kids miss out on the primary benefit of an education: upward mobility. Yet, when we spend time in Umi's archive, we get an alternative understanding. School failures are not due to Black pathologies, but white supremacist systems that disinvest in Black children and their communities. And with that understanding, education and schools are not sites of upward mobility, but rather key sites of revolutionary action and transformation and nation-building.

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  • Columbus, OH
  • 1968-1973
  • open
Education to Govern
  • Education to Govern
  • Detroit, MI
  • August 1974
  • open
To Swat or not to Swat: The Issue of Corporal Punishment in the American Education System
  • To Swat or not to Swat: The Issue of Corporal Punishment in the American Education System
  • Columbus, OH
  • Summer 1973
  • open
Save Our Youth
  • Save Our Youth
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  • 1978
  • open
Concepts East Coming West
  • Concepts East Coming West
  • New York
  • 1977 -1976
  • open
Islamic Education...for Correction!
  • Islamic Education...for Correction!
  • Brooklyn, NY
  • 1980
  • open
Ms. Weeks
  • Ms. Weeks
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  • 1980s-2000s
  • open
MECCA
  • MECCA
  •  
  • October 2000
  • open
The Sisters Conference
  • The Sisters Conference
  • US Eastern Seaboard
  • 1970s-2015
  • open
Muslim Women's Help Network
  • Muslim Women's Help Network
  • Jamaica, NY
  • 1990s
  • open
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