even compared to when we grew up, you walk into the bookstore and you look at the YA section or the

middle grade section, right? And you just see all of these covers and stories and narratives.

You know, we could go 12, 13 years in school without seeing any of these type of stories, right?

And now there are so many teachers, educators, authors, community members that are using all these

things to try to make young people feel loved,

celebrated, and empowered in schools. And that is at odds with the ascendancy of authoritarianism

and fascism in our country. Like those two things cannot coexist. Having an educated

citizenry is deeply dangerous to authoritarian regimes.

Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am thrilled to welcome to the podcast, Eve L. Ewing. Eve is a writer, scholar, cultural organizer,

and teacher whose work examines race, history, and education in America. Her latest book,

Original Sins, The Miseducation of Black and Native Children, and the Construction of American

Racism traces the history of the American education system,

revealing how it was designed to sustain racial inequality and how those injustices persist today.

I have read this book and I absolutely love it. And as you'll hear today, I want to press it

into the hands of every teacher, parent, administrator, student, and human being who has ever had to deal

with education here in America. Don't forget, our February Book Club pick is Lolita by

Vladimir Nabokov. Ira Madison III will be back on Wednesday, February 26th, to discuss

the book with us. Be sure to read along and tune in.

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