Countering White "Massive Resistance" (August 27, 2025)

Welcome . . .

I. Name Game (Thank you, Katie and Renee!)

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II. Journaling Time & Voluntary Sharing
…from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s UNDROWNED
Reflect on an excerpt from Gumbs’s UNDROWNED about the baby Weddell seal.  Listen to the read-aloud and/or follow along here. Write whatever/wherever this excerpt takes you. You might ruminate on  the portals you need to push through, the vulnerabilities of a newness you are experiencing, or how/why you are (re)learning and (re)knowing your capacity right now.​

Sign-Up Sheet for Hype Panel Presentations

Sign-Up Sheet for Black YAL Book

PDF of Public-Facing Learning Guide

Link to Course Policies & Processes

More about the Course
II. Syllabus Q&A

• Links available on every agenda (password will remain the same until 2026)
• Overview of Hype Panels
• Sign-up sheets for presentations and YAL choice are available / purchase books now and be mindful where you buy
• Black canon/cannon choices will come later
  

​III. Introduction to Black Magical Youth & Their Schooling

IV. BREAK (the snack drawer has been budget-compromised this year)

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Brown v Board of Education & Massive Resistance
V. Check-in

• What do you know about Brown v. Board of Education and its connections to privatization?  

(watch all of this)

(watch from 10:40-16:05; 28:20-34:00)

A) Small Group Discussions (jot down notes as you watch)

• Choose a facilitator who will represent the group's discussion (note: the facilitator has to represent everyone's ideas, not just their individual ideas)
• As a group, discuss: Why schools?  Why education?  Why are schools and curriculum the site of so much power and oppression?
• As a group, discuss: How does "Massive Resistance"-compare to and/or implicate "adaptive discrimination via privatization" today?
• As a group, discuss: What does all this mean for us today?

B) Report Back + Whole Class Discussion

1. Why schools?  Why education?  Why are schools the site of so much power and oppression?
2. What does all this--- especially "Massive Resistance"--- mean for us today?  How does it compare to and/or implicate "adaptive discrimination via privatization"?