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Teaching When the World Is on Fire 5.625 × 8.75 SPINE: 0.9375 FLAPS: 3.5 EDUCATION $25.99 U.S. With contributions from: Is it okay to discuss politics in class? What are DEBORAH ALMONTASER SARAH ISHMAEL constructive ways to help young people process WAYNE AU NATALIE LABOSSIERE the daily news coverage of sexual assault? How WILLIAM AYERS CRYSTAL T. LAURA can educators engage students around Black BILL BIGELOW MAYA LINDBERG Lives Matter? Climate change? Confederate NOAH CHO JAMES W. LOEWEN statue controversies? Immigration? Hate speech? JUSTIN CHRISTENSEN H. RICHARD MILNER IV Teaching Lisa Delpit’s Other People’s Children, a clas- sic text on cultural slippage in classrooms, has JEFF COLLIER PEDRO A. NOGUERA sold over a quarter million copies. In Teaching ALLYSON CRINER BROWN JAMILAH PITTS When the World Is on Fire, Delpit now turns CAROLINA DRAKE MICA POLLOCK to a host of crucial issues facing teachers and HAZEL EDWARDS JULIA PUTNAM schools in these tumultuous times. Delpit’s sig- CHRISTOPHER EMDIN FREDRICK SCOTT SALYERS When the nature master-teacher wisdom tees up guidance JAY FUNG CARLA SHALABY from beloved, well-known educators along with CAMILA ARZE TORRES GOITIA CAMI TOULOUKIAN insight from dynamic principals and classroom MacArthur Award winner LISA DELPIT is the JESSE HAGOPIAN JONATHAN TUNSTALL teachers tackling difcult topics in K–12 schools Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at South- AMY HARMON DALE WEISS every day. ern University and A&M College. The author of T. ELIJAH HAWKES This honest and rich collection brings Other People’s Children and “Multiplication Is World together essential observations on safety from for White People” and the co-editor, with Joanne Pedro Noguera and Carla Shalaby; incisive ideas Kilgour Dowdy, of The Skin That We Speak (all on traversing politics from William Ayers and published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Mica Pollock; Christopher Emdin’s instructive Rouge, Louisiana. Praise for Lisa Delpit’s Other People’s Children Is on views on respecting and connecting with black and brown students; Hazel Edwards’s crucial “Phenomenal. [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, insight about safe spaces for transgender and truths that otherwise have no voice.” —San Francisco Review of Books gender-nonconforming students; and James W. “Provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion Loewen’s sage suggestions about exploring sym- of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society bols of the South; as well as timely thoughts from reverberate in classrooms.” —Harvard Educational Review Bill Bigelow on teaching the climate crisis—and on the students and teachers ghting for envi- “Here, nally, is multiculturalism with a human face.” —Teacher Magazine Fire Edited by ronmental justice. An energizing volume that speaks to our con- tentious world and the necessary conversations we all must have about it, Teaching When the World Is on Fire is sure to inspire teachers to www.thenewpress.com LISA DELPIT support their students in navigating the current events, cultural shifts, and social dilemmas that Jacket design by Christopher Moisan Author of Other People’s Children Author photograph by Luckett Portrait Studio shape our communities and our country. Teaching When the World Is on Fire_jacket.indd 1 7/1/19 4:53 PM TEACHING WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 1 7/15/19 4:49 PM Also by Lisa Delpit Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom “Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children Also edited by Lisa Delpit The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 2 7/15/19 4:49 PM TEACHING WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE EDITED BY LISA DELPIT 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 3 7/15/19 4:49 PM To Adelaide Sanford, Septima Clark, Asa Hilliard, Gloria Hebert, Edmae Delpit Butler, and all the other phenomenal educators upon whose shoulders I stand. And to Patricia Lesesne, Makeesha Coleman, Fernanda Pineda, Charity Parsons, the Urban Teacher Leaders at Southern University, my former students from throughout the country, and all the other young, brilliant educators who have given me the honor and privilege of sharing their teaching journeys. I humbly watch as they set new kinds of fires and change the world. 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 5 7/15/19 4:49 PM 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 6 7/15/19 4:49 PM Contents Introduction xi Lisa Delpit Politics Matters 1 I Shall Create! 3 William Ayers Teaching Politics in the Age of Trump 16 Justin Christensen The Three Illusions 20 Julia Putnam Standing Up Against Hate 26 Mica Pollock Yes, Race and Politics Belong in the Classroom 33 H. Richard Milner IV Safety Matters 39 Cops or Counselors? 41 Pedro A. Noguera How Hurricane Harvey Altered My Perspective as a Teacher 51 Jeff Collier I Was Raised to Believe Education Could Keep Me Safe 54 fredrick scott salyers 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 7 7/15/19 4:49 PM viii CONTENTS Calling on Omar 57 Carla Shalaby School Justice 61 T. Elijah Hawkes Race Matters 79 Don’t Say Nothing 81 Jamilah Pitts Black Teachers, Black Youth, and Reality Pedagogy 86 Christopher Emdin How One Elementary School Sparked a Citywide Movement to Make Black Students’ Lives Matter 95 Wayne Au and Jesse Hagopian The Fire 108 Sarah Ishmael and Jonathan Tunstall in conversation Engaging and Embracing Black Parents 119 Allyson Criner Brown Who Do I Belong To? 128 Natalie Labossiere To My Sons’ Future Teacher, Colleague, Sister/Brother, Co- madre, Maestra, Comrade, Friend 133 Crystal T. Laura Gender and Sex Ed Matter 143 Sexual Harassment and the Collateral Beauty of Resistance 145 Camila Arze Torres Goitia Believe Me the First Time 155 Dale Weiss Nothing About Us, Without Us, Is for Us 166 Hazel Edwards and Maya Lindberg in conversation 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 8 7/15/19 4:49 PM CONTENTS ix Climate Matters 171 Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students 173 Amy Harmon Teachers vs. Climate Change 180 Bill Bigelow Culture Matters 199 Teaching Middle School Students to Advocate 201 Carolina Drake Why I Teach Diverse Literature 208 Noah Cho Love for Syria 214 Cami Touloukian Correct(ed): Confederate Public History 226 James Loewen Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Muslim Children 229 Deborah Almontaser Appendix: Books on Immigration for Young Readers 237 Jay Fung Permissions 239 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 9 7/15/19 4:49 PM 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 10 7/15/19 4:49 PM Introduction Lisa Delpit I REMEMBER SIXTH GRADE. I REMEMBER SITTING IN FRONT OF THE FAMILY television, mesmerized and terrified by the newscasts showing Bull Connor’s snarling police dogs attacking young black teenagers, and snarling white policemen simultaneously assaulting them with clubs and powerful fire hoses. I remember how afraid I was when my older sister participated in civil rights protests with her Southern Univer- sity classmates. I remember adults’ fury, frustration, and tears when we heard about four little girls murdered by a bomb while they were in church in Birmingham. I remember how neighborhood rumors periodically spread through the children’s grapevine that the KKK would be riding through our community. I remember the day that JFK was shot and the stunned horror that followed in the event’s wake. In the mornings, as I combed my hair in my mother’s room to prepare for school, I remember watching long lists of names of young men who had been killed in the Vietnam War scroll on the Today Show. I remember talk about the Cold War, and the drills in school where we huddled under our desks with our hands over our heads to “protect” ourselves from a nuclear attack. Early in that school year, I remember spending hours in church with other students at my small all- black Catholic school to “rosary-away” the Cuban missile crisis. (Apparently it worked!) Yes, 1963–64, my sixth-grade year, was tough for me and for all 5P_Delpit_Teaching_35414.indd 11 7/15/19 4:49 PM xii INTRODUCTION my age mates. The next few years were pretty tough as well, as the fight for civil rights escalated, the Vietnam War intensified, and the Cold War heightened. It was a difficult time to be a child. And yet, somehow the world feels more frightening now—for chil- dren and adults. In the 1960s, there were certainly right- wing pol- iticians, with their only slightly veiled appeals for violence, focused on maintaining segregation and depriving people of color of their citizenship rights. There were organized and unorganized thugs who beat, battered, and killed African Americans who stood up for those rights. Children were afraid for themselves and for their loved ones. But at the same time, the federal government at least gave lip service—and occasionally support—to the battles waged by its darker citizens. Our leaders could make appeals to the White House to shame the administration into addressing blatant injustices. Citizens of all colors shared a moral outrage that made those who beat young civil rights demonstrators, those who prevented eighty- year- olds from registering to vote, those who threw eggs at school buses and snarled invectives at school children seem barely human. There was a sense that for all the horror, all the fear, all the in- justice, there was always someone higher up watching with disap- proval: there were allies who wanted to help right indescribable wrongs; there were those who would denounce hatred and its reper- cussions; there were those who would physically protect the attacked. There were those who knew better. Today, our children can have no reassurance that the nation has a moral high ground. Rather, all morality from the top has sunk be- neath the putrid waters of racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenopho- bia, irrationality, and despotic bluster.
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