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Opal Moore

Subject: Literature

(b. 1953), poet, short story writer, essayist, educator, and critic of children's literature. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Opal Moore was influenced from childhood by ...

Anti-Imperialism

Anti-Imperialism   Reference library

Robert David Johnson

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Foreign Relations

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Current Version:
2021
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
10,627 words

...1. “ Declaration of Independence ,” July 4, 1776; J. M. Opal , “ Common Sense and Imperial Atrocity,” Common-Place 9 (2009) , http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-04/forum/opal.shtml; see also Michael A. McDonnell, “ The American War for Independence and the American Revolution ,” Oxford Research Encyclopedias (forthcoming). 2. “ Declaration of Independence ,” July 4, 1776; Robert Remini , “Northwest Ordinance: Bulwark of the Republic,” Indiana Magazine of History 84, no. 1 (1988), 15–24 ; Opal , “ Common Sense ”. 3. On treaty-making, see Jack...

Diaspora Literacy, Heritage Knowledge, and Revolutionary African-Centered Pedagogy in Black Studies Curriculum Theorizing and Praxis

Diaspora Literacy, Heritage Knowledge, and Revolutionary African-Centered Pedagogy in Black Studies Curriculum Theorizing and Praxis   Reference library

Joyce E. King

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies

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2021
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Social sciences, Education
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13,579 words

...including Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice—to name a few—sparked massive global Black Lives Matter (BLM) public protests. In a Foreword to the collection of essays entitled Black Lives Matter at School , BLM co-founder Opal Tometi ( 2020 ) observed: the United States is in the midst of an urgent moral and legal crisis over the safety, liberty and well-being of Black young people . . . both within classroom and outside the school grounds Black lives are under threat. (pp. xi, xiv) The volume’s...

Antiblackness and the Adultification of Black Children in a U.S. Prison Nation

Antiblackness and the Adultification of Black Children in a U.S. Prison Nation   Reference library

Amir A. Gilmore and Pamela J. Bettis

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education

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2022
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Social sciences, Education
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14,760 words

...that offered a more complete, not competing narrative about race, gender, and policing in America. Arguably, #SayHerName was launched in response to the #BlackLivesMatter movement—a movement created in 2013 by Black and queer activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi following the murder of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman ( Black Lives Matter, n.d. ). While the #BlackLivesMatter movement led to awareness of injustices against Black people, it has been criticized for focusing on the lives of Black boys and men,...

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