Teaching Black History to White People

By: Leonard N. Moore

Narrated by: Thaїs Bass-Moore

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

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.

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

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.