Dr. Eve L. Ewing Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

About the author:

Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, and Maya and the Robot. She co-authored the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks with Nate Marshall and has written several projects for Marvel Comics. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago.

About the book:

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism explores how our schools were designed to propagate the idea of white intellectual superiority, to “civilize” Native students, and to prepare Black students for menial labor. Ewing argues that these dynamics persist in a curriculum that continues to minimize the horrors of American history. By demonstrating how American schools serve as an effective mechanism for maintaining inequality in this country today, Ewing makes the case that we need a profound reevaluation of what schools are supposed to do, and for whom.

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