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In honor of Women’s History Month, here are six books, films, essays, and talks to check out. Thank you to Professor Jane Gordon for assisting with this post! #womenshistorymonth
On #InternationalWomensDay we invite you to join us in celebrating and uplifting Black women authors and thinkers whose ideas are vital to our understanding of the world. As their work is under attack by right-wing demagogues, now is the time to unite in defense of their scholarship and behind the freedom of knowledge itself. These women are thought leaders, and what they illuminate with their work are the truths of our society and the paths of deep understanding that must be traveled to arrive at change. They cannot and should not be erased by bad-faith political actors or institutions like @collegeboard, whose capitulation to politicians weakens access to critical ideas through public education and the very foundations of our democracy. If you care about defending the work of these women, of anti-racism, intersectionality and Black feminism, please consider signing the Open Letter to @collegeboard and joining the movement to defend Black voices, Black citizenship and Black lives. Link in bio.
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Have you heard about Black Women's History Week? Positioned between Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March), #BWHW celebrates the accomplishments of Black women. Check out @feministajones @blairimani and @feminist to learn more about this weeklong commemoration, which was started by Feminsta Jones in 2018.
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Plantation Pedagogy: "Learning by Doing" in the Context of Slavery and Settlement3:00pm
Plantation Pedagogy: "Learning by Doing" in the Context of Slavery and Settlement
Monday, April 3rd, 2023
03:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Storrs Campus Oak Hall 408
Dr. Bayley J. Marquez (University of Maryland) will outline the concept of plantation pedagogy as a mode of teaching developed in the post-Civil War era for Black and Indigenous students which spread alongside the expansion of U.S. imperialism and still has reverberations in present day educational structures. Learning by doing, which is a widely regarded pedagogic strategy, has a number of deep connections to plantation pedagogy. In this workshop we will interrogate how learning by doing is connected to plantation pedagogy and engage in a critique of doing as both a project of learning and as a broader discourse in U.S. society. Participants will be asked to reflect upon the role of learning by doing in their teaching practice as well as what learning by not doing might look like.
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