Challenging White Supremacy and Promoting Antidiscriminatory Education in Charlottesville Post-2017
摘要
Following the 2017 white supremacist Summer of Hate in Charlottesville, Virginia, community activists, organizations, and scholars have mobilized to introduce a network of policy changes and programs with a focus on antiracism. Critical Race Theory (CRT) frames this chapter with the acknowledgment that white supremacy continues to operate in institutions of public schooling. We utilize counter story through critical autoethnographic and narrative cases to highlight how antiracism activism (i.e., the Black Student Union’s direct action in Charlottesville City Schools, the Hate-Free Schools Coalition of Albemarle County’s direct actions to change dress code policy, and the design and implementation of community-based antiracist teacher training and curriculum revisions) and critical scholarship (i.e., public history scholarship on the racist roots of a local gifted and talented program, the role of scholar activists in the development of a K-12 district’s antiracism policy, and the role of scholar activists in creating a local Freedom School program) work together to challenge white supremacy and promote antidiscriminatory education practices and policies.