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Teaching History for the World We Need 

Teaching History for the World We Need 

I don’t know it for certain, but my brief time at Haverford College has led me to gather that the decision to hire me was prompted at least in part by the campus-wide strike of Fall 2020, led by a group of sagacious BIPOC students. After taking part in a summer of Black Lives Matter protests that shook awake American society and empowered young people to lead a multi-racial, intergenerational movement against the forces that oppressed the most vulnerable in our society, Haverford students returned to campus ready to make their school a place of empowerment. Among students’ demands for institutional change were the addition of courses that centered decolonial praxis, that is, philosophy and action. Their privileged education in the distant suburbs of Philadelphia would no longer mean their isolation from integrated approaches to grassroots activism.

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