America Behind The Color Line (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
Her premise is that the workplace is a performance space, the world is a theater, and our kids have to learn how to perform. “A lot of performances black kids currently have, they think of as the essence of themselves as black people,” she told me. “But they can learn a different way to perform, like they learn anything else. Because of the poverty they live in, what the kids know about the world is very narrow, and they know it from the street corner. Part of what it means to learn is that you have to be worldly in ways that a lot of our kids aren’t. So our educational approach puts them in situations where they have to learn to be more sophisticated.” I grew up in Chester, Pennsylvania, a poor suburb of Philadelphia. It was very much a working-class town. Many people who live in Chester came up from down South and settled there because it had a lot of industry at one time. My father worked as a baggage carrier for the Pennsylvania Railroad. My grandfather used to work in the steel mill.
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