We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

by Bettina L. Love

Intersectionality

Much mentioned

I am certain that dark people have never truly mattered in this country except as property and

Freedom, therefore, is ultimately a practice, rather than a possession or a state of

are not asking for struggle; we just understand that justice will not happen without

Teach for America’s mantra: spend two

Creating the narrative that dark people are criminals to justify locking them up for profit is no different from continuously reminding the American public that there is an educational achievement

mandated student assessments.16 Prisons

Refusing the idea that children do not need recess and insisting that all children need to play.

What?

research is crowded with studies that acknowledge dark children’s pain but never the source of their pain, the legacy that pain has left, or how that pain can be healed.