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Educational Autobiographies - Richard Wright - Coggle Diagram
Educational Autobiographies - Richard Wright
WHat is an educational autobiography? Why would someone want to tell the history of their education?
Belonging
documentaries about education and access
learning stories from minoritized perspectives to reveal how to make education more accessible
seeing and identifying structural problems
fostering self-reflection and how we learn (seeing different study skills and how they make learning happen)
Black Boy
What beliefs, laws, cultural attitudes, and systems did Wright have to navigate in order to gain access to library books? What does this reveal about how education is stored, housed, and guarded?
Jim Crow laws (legal segregation, literacy/writing as tool for voter suppression)
scientific racism
as if Wright
couldn't
handle that knowledge
Economic disenfranchisement and literacy
Education is guarded: physical (actual librarian behind the desk) and the interpersonal
are you "worthy" of this knowledge?
the irony/violence is that libraries are "public" knowledge
contemporary librarianship: things are still behind paywalls
communication is a key form of being human
when you take away reading and writing, you're taking away access and community;
writing is key in sharing knowledge and
making
knowledge
Contemporary Academic Sturctures
materials and items are required for class but have to be purchased by individual students
library paywalls
Open Academic Resources: knowledge production is shaped by colonial frameworks from the West; how do we empower scholars in Global networks?
curriculum and who gets to say what counts as knowledge and who makes it
financial barriers for access to college (and this is racialized and classed)