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I’m Professor Jamal Turner, and in this video, we’ll dive into Critical Race Theory and the racial taxonomy behind white supremacy. We’ll trace how these categories were fabricated in colonial pseudoscience and arm ourselves with the tools to dismantle them. Get ready to unravel the myths that have shaped our world.
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Woodson’s 1933 classic is a searing indictment of the American education system’s failure to empower African Americans. He argues that Black students are not educated but indoctrinated—trained to accept inferiority and to seek validation within systems that exclude them. Through sharp critique and historical analysis, Woodson exposes how Eurocentric curricula erase African heritage and condition Black learners to serve rather than lead. His call for self-education, cultural reclamation, and Afrocentric pedagogy remains urgent today, especially in the context of curriculum reform and racial justice in schools. The book is both a blueprint for liberation and a mirror reflecting the psychological scars of systemic miseducation.
In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race across centuries, continents, and cultures. While Ryan Coogler and Janelle Monae may have helped bring the genre into contemporary pop consciousness, it in fact extends back to the writing of eighteenth-century poet Phyllis Wheatley and has continued in the work of Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, N. K. Jemisin, and many others. In examining this heritage, contributors in this volume question generic boundaries, recover lost artists and introduce new ones, and explore how the meteoric rise of a new, pan-African speculative literary tradition may or may not connect with Afrofuturism.
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