There’s now relief for those concerned about the racism of Asian 4-year-olds.
According to The College Fix two teachers from secondary education were awarded $11,000 for developing a curriculum that would teach children who are still eating their boogers to not be racists.
American Educational Research Association (AERA), granted the grant to Zhongfeng Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio professor, and Alisha Naguyen, instructor at Boston College.
Per a press release, here’s how it will work:
[Zhongfeng and Alisha will]To design an antiracist, eight-week program for biliteracy in three classrooms and to collaborate with parents and teachers in two preschools offering dual language immersion in the Greater Boston Area.
Mandarin and Vietnamese are the foreign languages used.
It’s a three-fold goal:
- Teach preschoolers to possess “Asian pride”
- Support teachers in promoting “racial and linguistic justice”
- Forward bilingual and biliteracy education by challenging “hegemony of English in the curriculum”
Their goal is to encourage early childhood literacy through the promotion of Asian-American literature.
The effort is “antiracist,” but it appears intended to topple anti-Asian attitudes.
It was also sparked by the pandemic.
[Zhongfeng]According to the creators of this project, it was born through conversations with [Alisha]Professor in the Department of Teaching, Curriculum and Society, Boston College. COVID-19 was widely spread. [Zhongfeng]Both researchers observed a similar rise in anti-Asian racism and a response.
“This is not a new problem, anti-Asian racism, it’s part of US history,” [Zhongfeng] explained. “It’s just that COVID-19 awakened people’s awareness that we need to stand in solidarity with different minoritized communities to fight against systemic racism together.”
They aren’t the first to attempt an undoing of pernicious prejudice among those presently peeing their pants:
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Red State Spends Millions so Disabled Preschoolers Can ‘Deconstruct Whiteness’
University Performs an ‘Antiracism’ Experiment — on Four-Year-Olds
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It seems to me that, if America is so racistly rotten that we have to penetrate the preschool psyche, then there’s no hope of youngsters not becoming racists.
Curiously, AERA’s method of attack is “antiracism,” which emphasizes everyone’s race.
Kimberle Crenshaw, a UCLA law professor:
“Antiracism is the active dismantling of systems, privileges, and everyday practices that reinforce and normalize the contemporary dimensions of white dominance.”
Per CNN, antiracism maims “microaggressions” such as the following:
“I’m colorblind; I don’t care if you’re white, black, yellow, green or purple.”
Gateway to discrimination’s demise?
Either way, the project’s helmers are qualified indeed.
His resume reveals that he is a certified teacher. [Zhongfeng] previously led a workshop on “Anti-Racist Language Teaching” — “crafting translanguaging spaces in a third grade Chinese Language Arts class.”
Alisha also published two papers about racial education for kids
- “Children Have the Fairest Things to Say: Young Children’s Engagement with Anti-Bias Picture Books”
- “Childhood Innocence and the Racialized Child in a White Space”
Courtesy of The College Fix, she’s discovered innocence is inane:
“[I]nnocence has always been a racialized and gendered concept” that prevents teaching children about social justice and issues like race and sex, Nguyen wrote in her “Childhood Innocence” paper.
“For children of color, childhood innocence is neither presumed nor entitled,” she wrote. “Many researchers have raised serious concerns about the criminalization of Black boys and adultification of Black girls in U.S. classrooms.”
Moreover:
“Childhood innocence, hence, is a burden and a contested privilege that needs to be debunked. [This will reclaim] child rights of civic engagement, participation in critical conversations of social justice issues, and access to important knowledge.”
Let’s get anti-innocence and antiracism started.
-ALEX
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