This Is What White Supremacy Looks Like in Our High Schools

As a public school teacher, I saw how a culture of fear is holding back anti-racist education in our classrooms

Joseph Erikson
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Published in
9 min readJul 3, 2020

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In the spring of 2017, I took a part-time job teaching English at a high school in a small agrarian and prison town just far enough outside of Seattle that people fly Confederate…

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Joseph Erikson
GEN
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Neurodivergent first gen scholar; pre-gentrification New Yorker; Ethnic Studies teacher. Politics/class/education/culture. Based in Portland, OR