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This book is so good! Wish I could read faster…but life + compulsive annotating means this will take me a bit.

Barely started and already shook by the shocking contrast to hooks' experience in schools before integration and after. "That shift from beloved all-black schools to white schools, where black students were always seen as interlopers - as not really belonging - taught me the difference between education as the practice of freedom and education that merely strives to reinforce domination"

The metaphors: old houses, illnesses, toxins, unseen skeleton...
So good!

I don't know what to expect from this book, but so far it reads like an anthropological analysis of the United States in the 2016 election (and way more) - with a slightly ironic tone (at least on the narrator's part) and it's fascinating. And scary.

7 minutes into this book and I'm 100% hooked! Listening to this and the narrator is amazing - I know I'll want to get a copy of the physical book too because I already wish I could have highlighted so many parts!

This is not a light read. I started in Spanish and switched to English because oh man - the vocabulary is rich and challenging. The ideas though - they are worth the effort. Reading this as I read Kendi's work is interesting because they compliment each other so well - right now still more in the theory section that the application - but enjoying this! Wish I had read it sooner!

Slowly but surely. The chapter on Class really shook me. I never realized just how connected capitalism and racism were. Shook. Me. It's obvious when you think about it, but obviously our schools don't teach economics with this lens. I took so many economics courses in college - none of them addressed this. Politics courses didn't either. How can that be? Is it deliberate? Willful ignorance?

This book is so good! Sometimes I just pause the audiobook to savor the imagery. The craft in this book is exquisite and raw. I can definitely imagine analyzing excerpts with students. Will finish today!

Taking notes for further reflection, but I can't copy nearly 3 pages on the racist history of standardized testing. It's much more insidious than I realized. As a teacher this is tough to read. I always hate when we lose huge amounts of time to testing, but now it seems like more than an unfair waste of time. It is a system that maintains and perpetuates racism in education.

So far this book is an easier read than I expected. I'm still not zooming through as I'm actually reading the book and not listening to it.
Kendi contextualized language and history through his own story and through exposition - it is a nice blend that keeps it personal and big picture.
I'm taking a lot of notes. Kendi's exploration of racism in his own life and mind is an invitation to me to do the same.

Loving this book so much! Elizabeth Acevedo is the narrator for the audio version so it's even better!

I read memoirs slowly - but I'm enjoying this!

Reading this out loud with the kids. I love it so much. Mica is really enjoying it...Liam is still too little.

Recommended to me by my students. Listening to the audiobook.

I already am loving this book. It fits in so well with the Mathematical Mindsets book. It makes me wish I had my own classroom to go back to and try these things out in.

Slow and steady. Still loving this book!

I have only read the first two chapters and already feel like my math teaching will look different this year. Really enjoying this book!

This book is keeping me from sleep.

So far I'm enjoying this book. Reader's notebooks will be much more successful this year!