Teaching Black History to White People

De: Leonard N. Moore

Narrado por: Thaїs Bass-Moore

Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for 25 years, mostly to White people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone.

With Teaching Black History to White People, which is “part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to guide”, Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the Black experience in America. He poses provocative questions, such as “Why is the teaching of Black history so controversial?” and “What came first: slavery or racism?” These questions don’t have easy answers, and Moore insists that embracing discomfort is necessary for engaging in open and honest conversations about race. Moore includes a syllabus and other tools for actionable steps that White people can take to move beyond performative justice and toward racial reparations, healing, and reconciliation.

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Essential Guide Understanding Black America

Dr. Moore leads the reader through the essential events that you have shaped the black American experience.

Impactful

I heard Professor Moore doing an interview on NPR and was interested in reading his book. I’m a white privileged mid-fourties’ male and unfortunately both sides of my family’s ideology is the antithesis of this book.
This book has had a profound impact on me in that it has challenged some of my conscious and subconscious behaviors and as Dr. Moore pointed out, even us liberals need to pause and check our perceptions and presumptions and it’s ok to be uncomfortable as this can facilitate change.
Thank you Dr. Moore
Tony B

The most moving and spiritual changing book I have read in a long while.

Dr. Moore takes you through a whole series of emotions with this book. There were times when I cried and times where I was hopping mad and I loved it. So much so that as soon as I finished the book I reread right then. Am I no longer a white upper middle class Republican elderly woman? No, but I can see that some of the things I say and do could be considered “micro aggressions” or racism. For that I am indebted to Dr. Moore as I had always considered myself very “non-racist” as we are a military family and have always been taught to “not see race”. I shall look for race in a positive way in future. Some of the historical events were gut wrenching and I had never heard of so many of them before, again I’m grateful for having these horrors shown to me all while trying not to lose my lunch. God bless that we as His children can always choose to do the right thing in these situations.
The narrative was very nice, I know voicing a book is hard, and the delivery was smooth and lovely. I however would have wished that Dr. Moore had read his book himself as I obviously would never have the opportunity to listen in on this great man’s classes, so I want to hear him lecture. I cannot recommend this book too highly. I shall be purchasing the other books he has recommended for further growth and development.

Eye Opening

This book helped me realize the Black perspective, this is American history I wish I had been taught in school. I would have felt less alien.

This book is strong, honest , and compassionate.

It helped me want to strive more to help those who have had their circumstances ordered to be considered the problem in America see that truly there are puppet masters that have rigged the game against them.

It also encouraged me to persevere to help those who by choice, ignorance, or benign neglect keep this form of injustice spreading like the awful plague that it is.

My desire is to promote justice by inciting both side to seek righteous judgment, or indict those who ignore this 'American Dilemma" and continue to do harm to have to face the Divine justice that they escaped on earth, in the afterlife.

Sidebar; I liked that Dr.Moore's wife performed this book.She did well.

Very informative

I’ve been diving into books of similar genres for some time and I genuinely learned a lot from this book. I hope he writes more books at some point, and I will recommend this book to others.

Ripples to Waves

Doctor Leonard Moore provides us with a brilliant look at life through the lense a black educator. His examples, coupled with life experiences and historical evidence, culminate in an introductory handbook on how we can all act to better educate ourselves and others on black history.

Great book, highly recommend

I learned so much from this book. I highly recommend it. It should be mandatory reading for high school and college students.