![]() course “lacks educational value,” rehearsed similar arguments in 2021, when the state banned the educational use of the 1619 Project. Officials in Florida, who claimed that the proposed A.P. ![]() The latest flash point has been in Florida, where, in January, Governor Ron DeSantis rejected a proposed Advanced Placement course on African American studies, sponsored by the College Board. How do we make sense of the American creed of liberty, equality, and justice alongside a reality of enslavement and the legal subjugation of Black people? Answering this question casts doubt on the sagacity and the morality of the Founding Fathers it also guts the premise of unfettered social mobility, which supposedly underwrote the American dream for the “greatest generation” of the twentieth century. For a nation that views itself as exceptional in its quest for freedom, justice, and liberty, its origins as a settler-colonial state built on the bodies of enslaved Africans are necessarily fraught. ![]() The current row over the place of slavery in American history provokes long-standing anxieties over the nature of the country itself. ![]()
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