By Liza Veale, KALW Crosscurrents
Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It is a look at American history and culture from the perspective of people who are not white. It is also a chance to break down race in the classroom and deal with tough concepts, like unconscious racism and structural inequality.
It is a timely move, and one San Francisco School Board Director Emily Murase thinks can help solve what she calls a “crisis in race relations.” Murase said she is “very proud to be part of a community to find the antidote to that crisis to be. . . . an inclusive curriculum.”
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