Mock slave auctions, racist lessons: How US history class often traumatizes, dehumanizes Black...

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    Mock slave auctions, racist lessons: How US history class often traumatizes, dehumanizes Black students

    On the first day of Black History Month 2021, a group of Wisconsin teachers gave sixth grade students an assignment asking them how they would “punish” a slave. As the month drew to a close, a Florida high school teacher was suspended with pay after allegedly telling students slaves were not whipped by white people and that the N-word, a racist slur, “just means ignorant." In February 2020, a student-teacher in Tennessee gave her fourth grade students an assignment called "Let's Make a Slave" about a speech from the 1700s about keeping Black slaves under control. In 2019, a fifth ...


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    Mock slave auctions, racist lessons: How US history class often traumatizes, dehumanizes Black students

    Each year, particularly in February, racist classroom activities about slavery draw national outrage. Experts say its part of a systemic problem.


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