“In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.” FormPoliticalLeftBlackViolenceGroupsStudentsCollegeArmyActivismLiberationRadicalismPanthersBlack PantherWeathermenPolitical Violence Author:Marisha Pessl
“While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.” PeopleArtRealEnjoyBlackLevelsTeachingTalentStudentsBuddhismDegreesMartial ArtsBeltsRamaBlack BeltReal Talent Author:Frederick Lenz
“Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.” StatesSchoolNextBlackNaturalStepsEnvironmentStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolHistoricalRaisedUniversityGoing To CollegeColleges And UniversitiesDelawareAfter High School Author:Michael N. Castle
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.” PersonsHas BeensEnoughSchoolBlackWhiteStudyTeachingStudentsConceptsSettingSettingsLabelsBlack Person Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
“I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.” FeelsYoungChoicesBlackEnvironmentStudentsActivityIdeology Author:Kamala Harris
“I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.” BlackWhiteStudentsBehaveDisturbed Author:Bell Hooks