Chapter 7: Dying White People in Dead White Schools
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Published:2018
Samuel Jaye Tanner, 2018. "Dying White People in Dead White Schools", Critical Intersections In Contemporary Curriculum and Pedagogy, Laura M. Jewett, Freyca Calderon-Berumen, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
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dying white people in dead white schools
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i’m tired of good white people
in good white schools,
of being good white people
in good white schools,
writing white tests,
talking white talk,
white and wrong,
aligned standards,
aligned rubrics,
aligned people,
dying white people aligned to
dead whiteness, these good white schools,
bell rings, hands clap,
1-2-3, all eyes on me—
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y’all white people,
y’all white people crazy,
brown and black bodies,
dying,
pale and pink lungs
choking,
from sea to plastic sea,
smoggy skies,
these viral beings,
y’all white people
killing us all off—
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the united states are
