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"A student raised their hand and then calmly told us that their generation sees the injustice and they aren’t going to take it. The rest of the group shook their heads and clapped in agreement. The contrast between adult surprise and youth awareness awed me."

from They’re Not Gonna Take It: Hope in the Haze

Scratching the Surface: Confronting White Supremacy in our Music Classrooms

#whitesupremacy #musiceducation #whiteness #criticalracetheory Brian Gellerstein This article was originally published in the Winter 2021 issue of the Massachusetts Music Educators Journal. The structures of White supremacy are complex and present throughout all of public-school education. Many of us believe that music education, by its very nature, reaches everyone and cuts across all cultural understandings (Forshaw 2021; Gellerstein 2021). This myth has been heavily roman

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