Alan Peeler
Professor Megan Hartline
Persuasion and Propaganda
October 28, 2021
Annotated Bibliography
Chatterji, Roby. “Fighting Systemic Racism in K-12 Education: Helping Allies Move from the
Keyboard to the School Board.” Center for American Progress, 24 Sept. 2020,
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/news/2020/07/08/487386/fighti
ng-systemic-racism-k-12-education-helping-allies-move-keyboard-school-board/.
This article comes from the Center for American Progress, which describes itself as “an
independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all
Americans...” This particular article is concerned with the uptick in anti-racism allies and what
these new additions can do to fight systemic racism, specifically in the nation’s public schools.
The first suggested course of action is to seek equitable funding for low income areas, as schools
there were already struggling before much of their limited budget was slashed in the recession of
2008. The second suggestion offered is for allies to advocate for a lowered police presence on
school grounds, as all students suffer performance decreases when subjected to scrutiny from
security, and people of color are on the receiving end of an unfair bias regarding extra policing.
The final suggestion is to end the de facto segregation that has come with neighborhood zoning
being used to keep low income children from attending school with those in higher income
families.
Furfaro, Hannah. “To Understand Structural Racism, Look to Our Schools.” The Seattle Times,
The Seattle Times Company, 14 July 2020,
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/to-understand-structural-racism-look-to-our-
schools/.
“How Systemic Racism Infiltrates Education.” Https://Www.benjerry.com,
https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2017/11/systemic-racism-education.
This fascinating piece is brought to us by the official website for Ben & Jerry’s, the ice
cream sellers. The author (who is unnamed) sets up the idea that hard work and a good education
will set people up for success. However, it then describes how black students in particular face
an unusually high amount of punishment in school, and the author attributes these unfortunate
facts to a suspicion of guilt that follows those students throughout their time in school. The
author finishes out with a call to sign a petition and engage in conversation regarding
institutional racism.
I am mainly using this article to show a corporate interest in the topic of institutional
racism. It’s important to note that a company does not do anything without profit in mind, but
even if this is just part of a public relations stunt, the message at the core of the article is a good
one. However, the author makes no mention of Ben & Jerry’s putting any money towards the
cause they’ve just written about, merely imploring the reader to do things outside of the
company.
Johns, David J. “Disrupting Implicit Bias Final - Ed.”EDBlogs,
https://sites.ed.gov/whieeaa/files/2016/10/Disrupting-Implicit-Bias-FINAL.pdf.
Jolley, Ava. “Stop Framing Institutional Racism as a Relic of the Past: It's a Curriculum
Problem.” Education First, 6 July 2020,
https://education-first.com/stop-framing-institutional-racism-as-a-relic-of-the-past-its-a-c
urriculum-problem/.
Jolley presents her point of view as that of a high schooler actually facing the direct
impact of institutional racism in the public school system. She discusses how students who have
not been the subject of institutional racism do not believe it exists, despite being classmates with
those who have dealt with it their whole lives. Jolley stipulates the blame for this lack of
information lies with a school curriculum that acts as though racism doesn’t exist. This
ignorance, she says, leaves people unprepared to talk about race issues, as the problems so
pervasive in the country are simply not taught in classrooms.
While caution may dictate taking an inflamed article written by a high schooler with a
grain of salt, it is important to look at issues from the perspective of those directly affected by
those issues. My main goal in using this source is to show a young person’s perspective on
racism, along with the perceived reason for it. Jolley’s discussion of how her classmate’s
ignorance was propagated in the classroom setting is just one example of how not being
knowingly affected by racial issues can still affect how you impact others.
Wilson, Charlie. “President's Perspective: Ending Institutional Racism in Education.” Home, 1
Feb. 2021,
https://www.nsba.org/ASBJ/2021/February/ending-institutional-racism-education.
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