The Advanced Placement class on African American Studies – the first new offering from the College Board since 2014 – comes amid new state laws restricting how historical racism is taught.
signed last spring by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, which states in part: “A person should not be instructed that he or she must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress for actions, in which he or she played no part.”
At Baltimore Polytechnic, Frasier believes that classes like hers and the proposed AP class help rectify a fundamental problem in the way the story of African Americans is taught in schools — by focusing scattershot on slavery and Black Americans’ freedom struggle, reflexively illustrated by familiar figures such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr.
As with all Advanced Placement courses, while the teachers must cover the overarching topics, they have considerable latitude in deciding the specifics of and materials for instruction. As they shape their lessons, members of the pilot cohort are relying on one another for ideas and problem-solving through an online community. The College Board has also enlisted about 20 professors to help shape the course.
“I don’t teach theory. I teach facts,” she said. “These things actually happened. There are bad things that happened in history, but your not talking about that doesn’t make them go away.”In Frasier’s classroom, frightening images of demonic ceremonies flashed on the screen — early Hollywood depictions of Haitian Vodou, a religion originating in West Africa.
“If they say something is evil or bad, what does that justify? What does it make it easier for them to do?”“That’s right, religion is a form of power,” Frasier said.
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