Understanding and Facing African-Caribbean Colonial Histories Through A Small Place
Help me give my students enough copies of "A Small Place" to face Anti-Blackness and Foster Empowerment
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Whitman's classroom raised $821
This project is fully funded
My Project
As ignorance and violence continue to detrimentally impact African American communities, students across the country and the world have felt a heightened sense of fear, isolation, rejection and loneliness that can be faced and mitigated, shifting towards awareness and empowerment, in the classroom.
At our high school, we want to empower our black students to feel that they not only belong, but are essential to the success of our school and society while also creating awareness and allyship.
Caribbean-born author, Jamaica Kincaid's, "A Small Place," has allowed for generations of people to critically examine the colonial roots of not just Kincaid's Antigua, but in nations across the world, that continue to foster anti-blackness and inequity. Kincaid's sharp examination of tourism, government, culture, and one's relationship to self and society both educates, humanizes, and empowers readers to face and hope to move beyond harmful colonial legacies imposed on places like Antigua.
I have taught this book for the last 2 years and students have rallied around its messages of finding inner strength in a world that seeks to erase you. Students of every background have seen themselves in Kincaid's incredible prose, and have further been prepared to develop their literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement skills. Having more copies of this book in our school's book room will ensure that generations of students can find empowerment and develop alliances.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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