A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, Kevin Coogan is an English Instructor at both his alma mater, where he serves on the First Year Composition Committee, and Guilford Technical Community College.
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As educators, we must accept that schools are spaces of Whiteness, White rage, and disempowerment…Education is not the antecedent of failing schools, poverty, homelessness, police brutality, and/or crime. Racism is; racism that is built on centuries of ideas that seek to confuse and manipulate we who are dark into never mattering to one another or this country.
Bettina Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
- The Whole Truth: Recognizing and Combating OppressionJames Baldwin’s essay, “A Talk to Teachers” (1963), encourages teachers… Read more: The Whole Truth: Recognizing and Combating Oppression
- The Good/Bad Binary: How the Media Reduces Hip-Hop to an Either/OrEntering a post-civil rights movement era, middle-class America experienced relative… Read more: The Good/Bad Binary: How the Media Reduces Hip-Hop to an Either/Or
- Comfort over Change: On White People’s Refusal to AnalyzeThe opening pages of Keith Gilyard and Adam Banks’s book,… Read more: Comfort over Change: On White People’s Refusal to Analyze
- Writing with Impostor Syndrome: On Why You are EnoughI have not been on this earth very long, but… Read more: Writing with Impostor Syndrome: On Why You are Enough
“Power” (2023) created by Layke Jones as her final project for my English 100 course.
Song credit: “Down the Street From Peace” by 14KT.
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