My commitment to #DecolonizeEd: Conference remarks by NYU CSS Director, Natalie McCabe Zwerger

Decolonizing Education. It brought you here today. It prompted you to wake up early on a Saturday when you have other commitments and obligations. It will prompt you to engage with other educators today on why and how we must shift the way we teach, think, and act with even our youngest babies. Decolonizing Education […]

Dear white folks, how will we march on?

On Saturday, January 28th, 2017, Shaun King, writer and civil rights activist, wrote this on Facebook, “Today has been, without a doubt, one of the most despicably inhumane days in my lifetime as an American citizen. Grievously inhumane. This day will go down in history as a deeply unethical, unnecessary, unconstitutional day of pain and […]

1.20.17: What we can expect and what we can do

Since the election, we have worked with educators around the country to strategize how to negotiate their roles working with our kids during times when we are navigating a space that has both surfaced some deep historical surges of hate and violence and ignited some unprecedented uncertainty… when our country will be run by a […]

Shock and awe: Two emotions. Neither of which we should feel after last night

Van Jones categorized it as a whitelash. Jay Smooth tells us hate won. For those of you who are writing on Facebook: “How could America do this? How could this happen?” #wakeup. This has been happening. Generations of “America’s racially antagonistic foundation, history, present, zeitgeist, and legacy” (Young, 2016) have brought us to this moment. […]

Race Conversations in White Spaces: The End and the Beginning

A recent Pew research study found that 67% of white social media users do not post or share posts about race or racial issues on their timelines (Anderson and Hitlin, 2016). Rather, white social media users are more likely to see posts related to race and race relations, but the social media interaction often ends […]

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