{"id":1771879,"date":"2022-12-12T06:17:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771879"},"modified":"2022-12-12T06:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:17:32","slug":"high-school-african-american-studies-program-is-less-history-more-marxism-and-voodoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-african-american-studies-program-is-less-history-more-marxism-and-voodoo\/","title":{"rendered":"High School African American Studies Program Is Less History, More Marxism And Voodoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhigh-school-african-american-studies-program-is-less-history-more-marxism-and-voodoo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This year, a new AP high school program was launched: Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS). The pilot program was introduced at 60 high schools across the country, with plans to add many more schools next year. \u201cThe curriculum will be an interdisciplinary look at the history of civil rights in the U.S., as well as African American music and other topics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/28\/1119862835\/a-teacher-pilots-new-african-american-studies-ap-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR benignly reported earlier this year<\/a>. Except a number of reports \u2014 including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2022\/12\/02\/ap-african-american-studies-black-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dec. 2 Washington Post article<\/a> featured on the front page of the print edition \u2014 indicate AP African American Studies is far from harmless, promoting, among other things, voodoo.<\/p>\n<p>Though the College Board, which manages the AP program, has been oddly secretive about the content of APAAS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/neo-marxing-the-college-board-with-ap-african-american-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Review reporter Stanley Kurtz<\/a> acquired a copy of the course\u2019s curriculum framework. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/neo-marxing-the-college-board-with-ap-african-american-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">His report<\/a> on that framework demonstrates the aggressive anti-American, Marxist content of the course.<\/p>\n<p>APAAS features readings from scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, who argues that authentic black studies requires revolutionary study and activism outside of academics. Kelley posits that norms of objectivity must be rejected in favor of Marx\u2019s call for \u201ca ruthless criticism of everything existing\u201d and a subsequent struggle against power structures. Though the topics in the curriculum sound neutral, Kurtz observes that \u201cthe readings almost uniformly consist of neo-Marxist agitation \u2014 pleas for a socialist transformation of America.\u201d That includes the anti-American Frantz Fanon, who called the United States \u201ca monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.\u201d Critical race theory (CRT) advocates Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, and Patricia Hill Collins are also on the reading list.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that APAAS\u2019s curriculum \u201ccontent writing team\u201d is staffed by leftist racial ideologues such as Joshua M. Myers of Howard University, who believes that \u201cBlack radical tradition\u201d should be synonymous with black studies. Moreover, a significantly large portion of the APAAS curriculum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/28\/1119862835\/a-teacher-pilots-new-african-american-studies-ap-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is devoted to the history of black studies<\/a>, vice the history of black <em>people<\/em> (imagine, by comparison, an AP European History course that focused on the history of European historical scholarship). \u201cThis seems oddly self-referential, until you realize it\u2019s a strategy for teaching about radicalism without quite seeming to do so,\u201d writes Kurtz.<\/p>\n<p> A Lot of Theory and Fluff, Not Many Facts <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t teach theory. I teach facts,\u201d Patrice Frasier, a Baltimore-based APAAS teacher, told The Washington Post. \u201cThe purpose is not to indoctrinate them or guide them in some kind of political philosophy. \u2026 The story is so much more complex than simply White people versus Black people,\u201d Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, a professor of African American Studies at Harvard University, told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>Yet plenty of reporting on the APAAS curriculum indicates that\u2019s hardly the case. APAAS content, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6207652\/ap-african-american-history-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to a Time article<\/a>, includes \u201cthe significance of the Marvel Black Panther movie\u201d and an opportunity to study \u201cthe reparations movement and Black Lives Matter activism.\u201d Intersectionality is reportedly \u201ca key tenet of the class,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/ap-african-american-studies-coming-to-us-high-schools-180980689\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the Smithsonian<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If APAAS were actually a serious study of the black experience in America, there would be readings from thinkers across the ideological spectrum rather than entire lessons about voodoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":1771882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7975,4123,6919,4919,7974,6644,3924,4039,7973],"class_list":["post-1771879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-african","tag-american","tag-federalist","tag-history","tag-marxism","tag-program","tag-school","tag-studies","tag-voodoo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}