Monday, February 3, 2025 3:00pm to 5:00pm
About this Event
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https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wu2V1qwpuVeuGOWhat: School of Education's 2025 IGNITE Dean's Spring Speaker Series
Talk Title: “From the Miseducation of the Negro to the Miseducation of the Nation: An Afro-futurist Perspective”
Date: Monday, February 3, 2025
Time: 3 – 5 p.m.
Location: CUE Commons Room (Posvar 4310)
Speaker: Dr. Lori Patton Davis, Professor of Education and Heyman Endowed Chair at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.
Talk Description: Carter G. Woodson’s The Miseducation of the Negro critically explores racism/white supremacy within the education system and its impact on Black people. However, his framework can be incredibly useful for understanding how our nation has been woefully miseducated. This is especially true in light of national efforts to ban books, distort historical facts, and sanitize history. The same institutions and systems designed to erase Black histories are equally responsible for efforts to purposefully erase uncomfortable truths that all people should understand. In this presentation, Dr. Patton Davis, reflects on Woodson’s masterpiece and the usefulness of his framework to address current challenges in the ongoing struggle to disrupt harmful educational practices designed prevent truth-telling about the nation's historical and present-day racial inequities.
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