Learning Black history generates anger and empowerment together

Evidence

Sitting in that class each day, I felt as if I had spent my entire life struggling to breathe and someone had finally provided me with oxygen. I feel a pang of embarrassment now when I recall my surprise that so many books existed about Black people and by Black people, that Black people had so much history that could be learned. I felt at once angry and empowered, and these dueling emotions drove an appetite for learning Black American history that has never left me. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 22

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Desegregation replaced liberatory Black schooling with obedience-based knowledge transmission; Learning itself served as anticolonial resistance within segregated black schools — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 11