AP African American studies concern

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He also calls for reparations in his materials .

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Anonymous wrote:He also calls for reparations in his materials .

Of course reparations would be a topic in an AA studies class. Advocating for or against is a little more problematic in today's cell phone-recording and/or going-viral culture, which is part of the initial resistance to the class in its entirety.

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Anonymous wrote:He also calls for reparations in his materials .

Of course reparations would be a topic in an AA studies class. Advocating for or against is a little more problematic in today's cell phone-recording and/or going-viral culture, which is part of the initial resistance to the class in its entirety.

And if they discuss it then they must discuss who gets it. So they are teaching FBA vs others

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Anonymous wrote:Of course they talk about NoI's antisemitism and other problematic traits.

But you honestly cannot talk about the trajectory of the Black experience in the 20th century without talking about the Panthers, the NoI, and other Black nationalist or separatist groups.

This isn't to say that those groups are correct, or to valorize them, but they are part of the trajectory of African American history as well as being a direct result of anti-Black racism.

Black self-help groups were a direct outgrowth of a sense that the white-dominated power structure would never extend the benefits to Black citizens that it extends to white ones.

This is also situated within a broader separatist impulse in American culture, in which you also saw other groups decide that mutual aid was a better answer than waiting for the US government to acknowledge their humanity.

how do you know that they do teach that part of the NOI ? The article gave no indication that they do

1. The article is from a biased site. They want to get rid of the course so they are going to enflame people like you.
2. AP curriculum is an outline of topics. Teachers don’t get a list of individual facts to teach. Unless the “reporter” looked at every single lesson plan for every single teacher of this course, they can’t tell you exactly what is taught about the NOI.

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Anonymous wrote:If they aren’t also saying the NOI is racist, wants racial separatism , is antisemitic and homophobic then this is very problematic and no different than overlooking that founding fathers owned slaves etc

Mentioning that the founders fathers owned slaves is a detail but is not why they are the founding fathers or the reason that they are important. Racial superiority and wanting racial separatism are fundamental to the NOI.

One of the reasons why we had the horrors of slavery in this country is that the founding fathers founded in on the basis of inequality. Understanding that is central to understanding American history.

If you assume that the APUSH curriculum offers multiple perspectives, why aren’t you making the same assumptions about the teachers in this course? If you aren’t making that assumption shouldn’t you be throwing a tantrum about APUSH instead since it impacts many more students?