How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda

“Wars are won by teachers.” –Vladimir Putin * In a prescient 1995 address at Howard University titled “Racism and Fascism,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison warned of forces within the United States “interested in fascist solutions to national problems.” These fascist solutions, she explained, involve both representations and practices—in other words, what fascists say […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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