By Charles Lowery, Carolyn Hernandez, Anthony Walker
Un-American Acts makes a speciality of identification and invisibility of African American and different underrepresented formative years within the U.S. society and education. awarded are a sequence of chapters rooted in severe thought, aesthetics, and ethical mind's eye which are meant to function activates for an important conversations and for accomplishing serious reflective pedagogy in academic management and academic experiences. Chapters heart on occasions that experience transpired in Ferguson, Staten Island, South Carolina, and in other places within the U.S. in addition to on different correct matters that experience had a profound impression on perceptions of race and identification in our nation's academic platforms.
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One day, he was returning a tent after a camping trip, to one of his neighbors across the street from his apartment. As he was going home, he crossed the street, and heard a male voice ordering him to stop. At the same time he heard a rifle being cocked. As he stopped and turned, a police officer was aiming his gun right at him while cursing, telling him to get face 39 A. WALKER & C. THOMAS down in the middle of the street. He was ten years old. His mom must have heard the officer, and was yelling out of the second floor window telling the policeman to leave her son alone.
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Even after slavery Jim Crow laws and the Black Codes, along with the actions of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, prevented full citizenship and therefore full inclusion to blacks in America. An in depth discussion of these actions provides us with opportunities for reflection, more discussion and actions designed to right these wrongs by clearing pathways that will help empower individuals towards self-identity. We will encourage in depth discussions regarding 42 PROMOTING EQUITY AND JUSTICETHROUGH STORYTELLING the social, political, educational and economic issues impacting our society in diverse and inclusive ways.
