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Journal Article
Songs caged birds sing: Letters between brothers and sisters
2019
Overview
In an open letter originally addressed to Rocco, a Black man and childhood schoolmate subjected to the ills of the School-to-Prison Pipeline, I felt compelled to ask the \"unasked question\" W.E.B. Du Bois confronts in The Souls of Black Folk - \"How does it feel to be a problem?\" While I pose the same question to Rocco specifically, I also invite other Black brothers and sisters to put words to the struggle to get free and be free. By speaking to our lived experiences as Black youth navigating systems of oppression, I underscore the subtle and overt ways Black bodies are rendered dispensable and valueless. Knitting together our stories and voices culminates in a counter-narrative that calls for justice. Rejecting education as the practice of modern day slavery, we instead call for education as the practice of freedom–a call, which counters the never-ending violence inflicted on the Black body, mind, and spirit.
