This is a really great interview with educator, activist, and dad Art Concordia Nelson about his work in Ethnic Studies. He has been a teacher in schools for over 20 years, was instrumental to the fight for ethnic studies in San Francisco public schools, Ethnic Studies as a requirement for all California high schoolers, and is now working on a program in Santa Barbara.
Some of my favorite topics he brought up in this video are:
- Ethnic Studies going from the margins to the center and the attacks that come with that
- Why Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory are under scrutiny and threat
- How race was invented to divide people
- The path of inquiry to understand systems
- The experience of working with young people and the responses or questions they have
- Anti Oppression/ Anti Racism
- Sorting neighborhoods into workers, managers, and owners
There were more gems but heres a good quote: "Ethnic Studies is history from the perspective of racialized communities of color"
Dig this? Check out my last Ethnic Studies in Every School painting and the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies
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