Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Sep 30, 2023 7pm
Location
Auburn Avenue Research Library
101 Auburn Ave NE
Details
Charis and Auburn Avenue Research Library welcome Dr. Bettina L. Love in conversation with Carol Anderson for a discussion of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal.
In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists, Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core.
Dr. Bettina L. Love is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the bestselling author of We Want To Do More Than Survive. She is also a founding member of the Task Force that launched the program In Her Hands, distributing more than $15 million to Black women living in Georgia. In 2018, she was granted a resolution by Georgia's House of Representatives for her impact on the field of education.
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of One Person, No Vote, longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award; White Rage, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Bourgeois Radicals; and Eyes off the Prize; and a contributor to The 1619 Project. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
