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APSA Oral History Project: Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series

Political Science Now

He has authored 50 scholarly publications including five books—the latest on the role of religion in IR, Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats and World Politics (2020) and another on the African American liberation struggle of the 1960’s-70’s, The Revolution Will not be Theorized (2019).

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Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support

The Hechinger Report

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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TEACHER VOICE: Here’s what I learned from my own classroom mistakes

The Hechinger Report

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history.

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Renowned HBCU creates a ‘safe haven’ for Black feminist and queer studies

The Hechinger Report

The women’s college received 13,614 applications for the fall of 2022 – a 48 percent increase over the 9,179 who applied in fall of 2019, according to a spokesperson for the college. Enrollment over the same time period rose by about 12 percent, and the number of students who are majoring in women’s studies has remained steady.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. Bangladesh’s existence wasn’t even acknowledged in her history classes.

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2023 Institute Faculty

ASHP CML

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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