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A review by amandakitz
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
This book is clearly the product of a deep practice of hope that looks to what is possible without turning away from the truth of suffering and this book shows both with the same depth of research, skill, and heart.
Analyzing the history of educational policy in the U.S. from Brown vs. Board of Education until today, Love dissects the policies and their creators to show the underbelly, all those ways in which white supremacy and capitalism work together to devastate Black youth for white profit. She uses personal interviews to have a grounded conversation about the data and its real life impacts. Her incisive analysis and proposed reparations are all based in an incredible amount of research. Not only is the information crucial, the execution is incredibly well done.
As an educator, I would put this book on the list of required reading right alongside Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow for the depth of scholarship and incisive analysis. I can't recommend it enough.
Analyzing the history of educational policy in the U.S. from Brown vs. Board of Education until today, Love dissects the policies and their creators to show the underbelly, all those ways in which white supremacy and capitalism work together to devastate Black youth for white profit. She uses personal interviews to have a grounded conversation about the data and its real life impacts. Her incisive analysis and proposed reparations are all based in an incredible amount of research. Not only is the information crucial, the execution is incredibly well done.
As an educator, I would put this book on the list of required reading right alongside Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow for the depth of scholarship and incisive analysis. I can't recommend it enough.