A senior College Board official now acknowledges the organization was mindful of how “systemic' and certain other words in the modern lexicon of race in America would receive intense scrutiny in some place.
February 2023. Instead, the course plan lists this as a sample topic a student could choose for a research paper.
The April version, 299 pages, was the pilot course guide, a road map for teachers before classes began in the fall. It included much more detail on goals, essential knowledge and potential source material. It also made an important switch on contemporary issues: Certain lessons on reparations, incarceration and movements for Black lives became optional and would not be covered on the AP exam.
In a spreadsheet dated Dec. 22, which the College Board provided to The Washington Post, the multiday sequence of lessons on “Black feminism, womanism and intersectionality” envisioned in April had morphed to “Black feminism and womanism.” It still included at that stage a lesson on “Intersections of Race, Gender and Class.”
This case is similar to reparations. The decision to include a three-week research project at the end of the course squeezed lesson time for contemporary issues. Black Lives Matter is now listed as one of 40 sample topics for a paper of up to 1,500 words. College Board officials point to the development of an extensive digital library for the course — including a 1991 text on intersectionality from Crenshaw — as evidence that they are not censoring writers or voices. Crenshaw teachers, they say, use the course framework as a starting point to design their own syllabi of readings and assignments.
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