Eve L. Ewing examines how the education system is designed to hurt Black and Indigenous students – The Windy City Word

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Eve L. Ewing examines how the education system is designed to hurt Black and Indigenous students – The Windy City Word

Chicago native Eve L. Ewing is dropping her new book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. In it, the University of Chicago professor and cultural organizer illuminates the deep historical ways the American education system upholds hierarchies of race.  “For both of our peoples, both of these histories are about control. It’s about subjugation. It’s about telling us that we’re stu