High school curricula: Progress or regress?
We live in a diverse society; it’s time for all school curriculums to reflect that.
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Restorative racial justice requires speaking in active voice
We must name and hold accountable those who are responsible for discriminating against and harming the lives and bodies of people of color.
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CA’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum still lacks necessary breadth, depth
STATE AFFAIRS: To truly confront prejudice in education, CA cannot dilute the new curriculum’s focus on marginalized perspectives
As we consider this ethnic studies curriculum, we must do so with a degree of attention, care and foresight equal to the great potential and power it holds.
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So, what do we do now?
Cal in Color
Ethnic studies should be a requirement, backed by law, for all levels of education, for all kids, who will inherit the unjust systems we leave behind
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UC Berkeley lecturer, lawyer, parent Michael Chang runs for Berkeley school board
Michael Chang, a lawyer, UC Berkeley lecturer and local parent, is running for the Berkeley Unified School District board.
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Dreaming while Black
In freshman year, I had an ethnic studies teacher who posed an interesting question to the class: “When did you realize you were Black?”
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Our basic humanity
Cal in Color
I’ve often had STEM friends not understand why they have to pay our exorbitant tuition even for classes not clearly related to their major.
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Women for Justice in the Americas holds SF, Sproul Plaza demonstrations
UC Berkeley students and community members held two demonstrations Monday demanding university support for international student strikes in solidarity with the fight against femicides and for the department of ethnic studies to receive funding to revive a course focused on gender-based violence.
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Legacy of Third World Liberation Front continues today
While the Third World Liberation Front’s goal of creating an independent Third World College on campus was not realized during the height of this activist movement in 1969, the movement had resounding impact on future movements and impacted the legacy of ethnic studies on campus.
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A project of love: Ethnic studies and the legacy of the Third World Liberation Front
Traumatic events find a way to be remembered, to shape the present in subtle or overt ways, and ethnic studies itself emerged from one such event 50 years ago.
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