'Those narratives that they were singling out aren't in the curriculum itself,' says Harvard's Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. 'What they see is buzzwords. They are picking on buzzwords that they know will inflame the hearts of some of their constituency'
To comment on Florida’s criticism of the curricula, TIME talked to one of its architects, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of history and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. The College Board created the course, and Higginbotham and her Harvard colleagueIn the below conversation, she explains what’s in the course and what’s not in the course.
U.S. President Barack Obama presents the 2014 National Humanities Medal to Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham during an East Room ceremony at the White House September 10, 2015, in Washington, DC. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham was honored for illuminating the African-American journey in her writings and edited volumes.The governor also says AP African American Studies would “indoctrinate” students.
One of the major points that comes out of this course is that Black people are not a monolith. The people of African descent are themselves of different ethnicities, of different ideologies and political persuasions. They are different as far as income, as far as education. And we’re trying to capture that complexity. There’s certain things that will be similar. But the richness of it is the complexity within a narrative that allows for students to disagree. And we want students to disagree.
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