Here comes the Book Gestapo

 
Jeffrey Sr. Clair

+ The College Board’s capitulation to DeSantis on Critical Race Theory is a case study for the proof of Critical Race Theory.

+ By surrendering to this petty tyrant…”the College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum. And it added something new: “Black conservatism” is now offered as an idea for a research project.”

+ Among the writers summarily expunged by the College Board from the AP African American studies course are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Robin Kelley, bell hooks, Roderick Ferguson, Michelle Alexander, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

+ Here comes the Book Gestapo: Florida teachers have been advised to hide their books to avoid felony charges. At one school, “the kids began crying and writing letters to the principal, saying, ‘Please don’t take my books, please don’t do this.’”

+ Walter Benjamin: “Every line we succeed in publishing today–no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it– is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.”