scholarly journals Teaching High School Cultural Studies in the Age of Trump

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
DJ Cashmere
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Assistant Principal ◽  
West Side ◽  
College Prep ◽  
Literacy Class ◽  
11Th Grade

In the fall of 2016, I began my third year teaching Cultural Studies Seminar at Chicago Bulls College Prep (CBCP), where I’d been working as a teacher since 2010. CBCP is a campus of the Noble Network of Charter Schools and is located on Chicago’s Near West Side. The school serves a population of students that is roughly 2/3 Latino and 1/3 African American, and about 90% of CBCP’s students receive free or reduced-price lunch. Every year, 100% of seniors are accepted to college. I had first devised the course in the fall of 2014, when my principal and assistant principal gave me permission to re-focus the 11th-grade literacy class I was teaching. I wanted to specifically study racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in America, with an eye toward how those systems operate and how they can be—and have been—resisted. We put our heads together and came up with the name “Cultural Studies Seminar.” The essay describes teaching the course during the semester of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

A Principal’s Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 673 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97
Author(s):  
Tim Bouman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
College Prep ◽  
Personal Resilience

Based on my experiences as a teacher, administrator, and now principal of North Lawndale College Prep Charter School, this article describes how our school nurtures students and prepares them to succeed not only in high school but also in college, despite the challenges that they face as young people in the inner city. Located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, the mission of North Lawndale is clear: “To prepare young people from under-resourced communities for graduation from high school with the academic skills and personal resilience necessary for successful completion of college.”

Interpreting Revelation through African American Cultural Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 482-498
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Slater
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social History ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Resistance Literature ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Impact

African American scholarship on Revelation makes fruitful use of cultural studies as a discipline. This approach draws on the field of sociology, social history, literature, anthropology, linguistics, and other cultural markers. As a method for biblical interpretation it values both the ancient context and the current cultural contexts of readers, and is open to multiple interpretations. This essay considers the various ways Revelation has functioned in African American congregations, the impact of Liberation theology, womanist and postcolonial perspectives, and the notion that Revelation is subversive or resistance literature. Attention is given to similarities and differences between African American scholars concerning Revelation’s political perspective, its approach to identity construction, and the way in which the book might engage current readers.

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