Picking up where MLK Jr left off, creating a global image of mankind/womankind that transcends all ethnic/racial, sex/gender religious, dissimilarities and obstacles
"One facet of my entire timespan on Earth has been a slow unfolding of understanding of all the different ways intelligence can be constituted" Some bipoc may struggle academically if : They are pushed to get the answer correct than to understand concepts and reasoning Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration. Students are tracked (into courses/pathways and within the classroom). Curriculum developers and teachers enculturated in the USA teach mathematics the way they learned it without critical reflection. Preconceived expectations are steeped in the dominant culture. Mistakes are addressed as failure rather than as opportunities to learn. Control of classrooms is valued over student's agnecy over their learning. Math is taught in a linear fashion and skills are taught sequentially, without consideration of prerequisite knowledge. Superficial curriculum changes are offered in place of culturally relevant pedagogy and practice. Only content standards...
Male Supremacy Structures Sexuality from here Radical feminists believe that male supremacy – a belief in and a condition of the supremacy of men over women, codified in part as ‘gender’ – is and always has been fundamental to the society in which we live. As such, it should be no surprise that societally approved sexualities are male-supremacist. In Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, MacKinnon defines a relation between gender and sexuality as follows: Stopped as an attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequality between men and women. For this essay, the key phrase is ‘sexualization of inequality’: the cultural value which holds that the unequal power dynamics between women and men are hot. In case this sounds satirical, let me be clear: I believe that most if not all of us are to some extent trapped within thi...
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