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    The document outlines concerns with topics from the College Board's submitted AP African American Studies course, finding that several topics promote controversial stances. Topic 4.15 on intersectionality includes readings from authors who rank people by characteristics like race and gender. Topic 4.19 includes a reading advocating forms of queerness that reject government and markets. Topic 4.29 covers a movement that aims to eliminate prisons and end discrimination against certain groups. Several topics feature authors who are highly critical of capitalism and white supremacy. Topic 4.31 includes a reading arguing that activism, not universities, drives social change.

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    CONCERNS FOUND WITHIN

    COLLEGE BOARD’S SUBMITTED


    AP AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES COURSE
    TOPICS FROM AP COURSE CONCERN

    Intersectionality is foundational to CRT, and ranks people based on their


    race, wealth, gender and sexual orientation.
    Topic 4.15
    Intersectionality INCLUDED READING:
    and Activism • Kimberle Crenshaw – Known as the “founder” of intersectionalaity, co-editor
    of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement
    • Angela Davis – self-avowed Communist and Marxist

    INCLUDED READING:
    Topic 4.19 Roderick Ferguson - who exclaims, “We have to encourage and develop
    Black Queer Studies practices whereby queerness isn’t a surrender to the status quos of race,
    class, gender and sexuality. It means building forms of queerness that reject
    the given realities of the government and the market.”

    Movement for Black Lives is an organization with stated objectives that


    include eliminating prisons and jails, ending pretrial detention, and
    concluding “the war on Black trans, queer, gender non-conforming, and
    Topic 4.29 intersex people.”
    Movements for
    Black Lives INCLUDED READING:
    • Leslie Kay Jones who wrote, “Every day, black people produce an
    unquantifiable amount of content for the same social media corporations
    that reproduce the white supremacist superstructures that oppress us.”

    INCLUDED READING:
    Topic 4.16 • Bell Hooks – Author of many intersectionality texts, and in the
    Black Feminist recommended reading states “I began to use the phrase in my work ‘white
    Literary Thought supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ because I wanted to have some language
    that would actually remind us continu-ally of the interlocking systems of
    domination that define our reality.”

    Topic 4.30 All points and resources in this study advocate for reparations. There is no
    The Reparations critical perspective or balancing opinion in this lesson.
    Movement

    INCLUDED READING:
    Topic 4.31 • Robin D.G. Kelley argues that activism, rather than the university system,
    Black Study and is the catalyst for social transformation.
    Black Struggle in the o Kelley’s first book was a study of Black communists in Alabama.
    21st Century o Kelley warns that simply establishing safe spaces and renaming
    campus buildings does nothing to overthrow capitalism.

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