Standardized early childhood curricula encode a white-supremacist moral color hierarchy

Evidence

Racism becomes standardized in EC classrooms replete with instructional practices and curricular resources that promulgate that everything great, good, efficient, fair, and honorable is white; everything mean, bad, blundering, and dishonorable is “yellow”; bad taste is “brown”; and the devil is “black” (Du Bois, 1920, p. 22). Consequently, children of Color find their lived experiences, cultural identity, and history ignored or mistreated (Bryan, 2017; Emdin, 2016), an erasure of children’s culture referred to as “spirit murdering,” which Love (2016) describes as slow death built on racism. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 260

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘spirit murdering’ and slow-death framing echoes the annihilation-of-caste literature on erasure of the marginalized from the curriculum. — connects to: Teaching uncritically maintains a status quo that harms children of color — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 614; Children absorb their teachers’ racism through internalized pedagogies of observation — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 244; Racial bias distorts early childhood schooling outcomes for children of color — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 261 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial bias distorts early childhood schooling outcomes for children of color #expands (0.78) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 261
• Teacher preparation gaps allow racism to reproduce through early childhood classrooms #complicates (0.72) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 243
• Children’s openness to minorities is later overridden by learned societal views #corroborates (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1980
• Derogatory labels predict degrading portrayals of minorities in children’s books #corroborates (0.70) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1270