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Feb 11, 2025 | ISBN 9780593908242 | 735 Minutes

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“[Eve L. Ewing] contends that the American education system has been deeply shaped by systemic prejudice. . . . She challenges readers to confront this uncomfortable truth so they can reimagine what schools could be.”Chicago magazine

“As an educator, an organizer, an academic, an artist, and a writer, Ewing often returns to a few key preoccupations—education, girlhood, race, science fiction—and I can’t wait to crack open her latest, which again meditates on the intersection of education and race.”Bustle

“Original Sins focuses on . . . how schools were designed not to unlock opportunity but to control Black and Native children, [to] enforce inequality, and to build the basic infrastructure of America’s racial and economic hierarchy.”The Ink

“In Original Sins, she makes clear how our country’s schools have intentionally configured the contemporary landscape of inequality. Exhaustively researched and exquisitely written, Original Sins is breathtaking.”—Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed

“The clearest most comprehensive answer to ‘how did all this happen?’ I’ve read.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

“A summons to collective struggle and imagining where dreams, memories, and care are woven together as the building blocks of a new vision of ‘schools for us.’”—Sandy Grande, author of Red Pedagogy

“Eve L. Ewing, one of the twenty-first century’s greatest intellectuals, proves that racism, colonialism, and carcerality started in the school. By reckoning with the violent, dehumanizing history of Black and Indigenous schooling, Ewing finds in the resistance of students and renegade teachers a path toward a life-affirming education.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

Original Sins is a commitment to being true about the past in order to truly have a future. Fiercely hopeful, this is a book you will read, and then want everyone in your life to read—a book to be read in community.”—Eve Tuck, co-editor of Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

Reimagining schools through a communal practice of braiding, Ewing invites readers to consider the power of education toward liberation—schools as collective sites where we can dream and grow our knowledge to building new worlds based on ethical relationships of care.”—Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of As We Have Always Done

“Eve L. Ewing lays the bare the core project of dispossession and race-making in American education and statecraft. . . . an extraordinary contribution to political history, studies in education and shared futures.”—Audra Simpson, author of Mohawk Interruptus

“Poet, sociologist, and cultural organizer Ewing again turns her incisive, scholarly eye to education, racism, and American society.”Booklist, starred review

“A troubling and eye-opening examination of the foundational role educators played in developing America’s racial hierarchy.”Publishers Weekly, starred review

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