Divisive Concepts

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/26/2023
  

  Why "Woke" is Such a Convenient Dog Whistle for the Right

  by Samuel L. Perry and Eric L. McDaniel

  The term hints at evoking demonized populations—Black and LGBTQ Floridians, for instance—while maintaining enough ambiguity to foster deniability about the consequences of legislation. It also has the auxiliary function of trolling white liberals. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/27/2023
  

  Kids Could Teach Republican Pols a Lesson About Handling the Harsh Truth

  by Margaret McMullan

  "Decades after she first walked into Little Rock Central High, Elizabeth Eckford said, 'True reconciliation can occur only when we honestly acknowledge our painful, but shared past'."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/11/2023
  

  Florida Man Calls the Thought Police

  by Victor Ray

  "Another word for believing in systemic inequality is 'reality.' Few legitimate social scientists claim otherwise, as an overwhelming body of evidence supports structural accounts of racism." By suppressing this reality, DeSantis reaches back to the McCarthy era's suppression of thinking about racism.

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• SOURCE: Academe Blog
  12/5/2022
  

  Who Controls the Curriculum in Florida?

  by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

  A federal court's ruling that Florida can't enforce it's "Stop WOKE" Act is a win for academic freedom, but not a total victory. Faculty must reassert the prerogative of setting curricular guidelines against administrators who see their role as serving the state. 

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• SOURCE: Banished (Substack)
  11/1/2022
  

  Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court? (Podcast)

  Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder discuss the implications of the Florida legislature's intervention into the teaching of history. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  3/30/2022
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones: Book Bans "Inevitable Backlash" to 2020 Protest Wave

  The journalist cited historian Timothy Snyder's argument that authoritarianism relies on restricting national understanding of civic identity in ways that serve existing power. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  3/27/2022
  

  AHA to K-12 and Postsecondary Teachers: Share Your Challenges with "Divisive Concepts" Law

  The AHA needs to hear directly from history teachers in states where content-based legislation has passed to help develp responses to protect the integrity of history teaching.

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• SOURCE: Academe
  2/23/2022
  

  What Does it Mean to Teach "Divisive Concepts"?

  by Dale E. Miller

  Insofar as the problem of political indoctrination that new "divisive concepts" laws are ostensibly meant to solve exists at all, the cure may be worse than the disease.