It was 1970, in the waning days of officially sanctioned segregation — of separate and, as Diehl would learn, decidedly unequal schooling.
Diehl, now a professor of English at the University of Iowa, describes her experiences teaching in the rural South in a new book, Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School, 1970.
It was here, in a school that the county neglected to provide with textbooks, that Diehl learned firsthand the damaging effects that institutional racism and Jim Crow politics would have on her young charges.
She soon discovered that she was learning more from her students than they had the chance to learn from her.
Diehl and Matilda Beauford, one of her former students, speak with Scott Simon about their days in Louisa County, and the legacy of segregation.
2007-03-24 18:41:34 · 5 answers · asked by brandley_1999 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
todays black children experience nothing like they did back in the 60's or earlier. the people who experienced true institutional and educational racism are all over 50 years old.
2007-03-24 18:47:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was the 1970s bro, 36 years ago, talk to the people that were there, and don't say you can relate because nothing even close to what those people went through happens today.
Most violent minority crime is targeted at their own race, but yet it is the White Mans fault.... Irony!
2007-03-28 14:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. This has to be a rhetorical question, right? The impact is so all-pervasive and has so many effects on our whole education system that I think it would take a book to thoroughly answer the question. Looks like you already found one book.
2007-03-24 18:50:31 · answer #3 · answered by Debra G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask somebody at your college like your significant. It maximum in all possibility isn't racism. truly maximum folk do exactly not rejoice it, inclusive of black human beings. we are going to comprehend it while February comes around, yet we don't do a lot for it. To the individuals asserting "What approximately white historic past month and different races?" there is not any could be so rude and obnoxious. And confident there is not any white historic past month, yet maximum historic past taught is white historic past and additionally you comprehend that's authentic. there is likewise Hispanic background month; i don't comprehend of any others off the authentic of my head, yet i'm fantastically useful there are greater.
2016-12-19 13:21:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there a question in there, or are you just advertising your book?
2007-03-24 18:50:25 · answer #5 · answered by Burger Boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋