A review by senquezada29
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love

4.0

Recommended to me by Sophia Carrillo. Great book. A very concise description of the "Educational Survival Complex," an education system built on the suffering, criminalization, and commercialization of students of color. She goes into great depth about how we got to this point, but I was hoping for more on how to combat it. Still, she makes some great points about how even well-meaning educators today are on perpetuating this system and what they need to do to self-educate themselves about Whiteness and the reality of the experiences of their students of color. I definitely recommend, especially if you are an educator.