AP African American Studies Curriculum

Baldwin put in his finger on the deepest wound in the American psychology, which is to say a long time ago, this country decided they would define Blackness as those whose lives would subsidize the freedoms of others. He's essentially creating these categories that are dog whistles to his supporters to say that must be bad. And when he says something like queer theory, and I love his like very, um, like fourth grade, enunciation, intersectionality. That's what education has always been about.