Anti-Racist History Teaching Reading Group

A reading group for anti-racist history teachers - please DM if you would like to join the group

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We are a group of history teachers looking to expand our own knowledge of the history of racism so that we can better teach anti-racist history in our classrooms. DM if you want to join the group.

[Adam @ADRobbler]

This is an assembly I’ve written for my school for black history month that’s free to download if you want to use it. It borrows / steals a lot from @DavidOlusoga and @MirandaKaufmann ‘s books.

https://t.co/3lf916FY5X

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It is clear from reading #BlackandBritish that colour and poverty are an age old mix in Britain, so too the fear or white women mixing with black men but rarely the other way around.

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In addressing anti-racist teaching we need to engage in discussion on the infantilisation of blacks then and now. #AntiRacistHistory #HavingaVoice #HavingAgency

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Do we have a responsibility to discuss the racialisation of sex and consent in the past? If so, at what age?

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Thanks to all who joined the conversation on Thursday. Here are some late tweets about it.

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Q for Chpt 6: Olusoga discusses tje the popular Wilberforce narrative of abolition and how it is a misrepresentation of the truth. What should we be teaching instead?

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Discussion on Olusoga's book this week looks at chapters 5 & 6. Join us Thursday at 8pm

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Q for Chpt 5: Black settlers migrating to Sierra Leone hoped to find a land free of racial inequality but did not. What would have made that possible at that time?

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When considering how we commemorate the past and what figures/events we chose it is important to ask if we are only selecting those that help build up the identity we want ourselves to have or are we challenging preconceptions? #MoretoAbolitionThanWilberforce

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Discussion tonight focused on several things including how best to approach the big things in history if you have EAL students. #BigHistoryvsSmallHistory #DeconstructingNarratives

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Is it better doing integrated history on a smaller scale to help others grasp the narrative rather than being too complex or hard to contextualise? What if your students lack #culturalcapital

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Cont. from last week and textbooks, Italian texts also put the onus of slavery on Africans for showing Europeans how profitable slavery could be rather than on the Europeans for taking a small-scale practice and globalising human misery. #Blamegame #DecolonisingtheCurriculum

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Just a reminder that we're holding our discussion on Olusoga's Black and British chpts 3 & 4 tonight at 8pm. Keep an eye out on Slack for the Zoom link. #DecolonisingtheCurriculum #AntiRacistHistory

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Q2 for Thurs: Denial of religion is an abuse of human rights today, but was denial of it about secular commerce or racist views that no black could want to be Christian but was trying to escape slavery?

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Q1 for Thurs: How can we reconcile the contrast in pursuing ideas like natural rights and laws in the coffee houses and salons where political leaders and philosophers met and slaves were bought and sold?

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Join us this Thursday to discuss chpt 3 & 4 of Olusoga's Black and British. Questions for discussion to follow.

[Dr. Miranda Kaufmann @MirandaKaufmann]

In the @guardian from tomorrow a 6 part Black History wall chart- which will feature some #BlackTudors! Something for the classroom wall #historyteacher s?

[Dr. Miranda Kaufmann @MirandaKaufmann]

Really quite scary when the #historyteacher s read out the paragraphs on John Hawkins in the current GCSE & A Level textbooks.