The Power of the Black Experience in the Classroom | Keith Mayes | TEDxMinneapolis

Keith Mayes makes a compelling case for how the black experience in the classroom could have remarkable impact.
Dr. Keith Mayes is an Associate Professor of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota and the College of Liberal Arts’ Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teacher. Holding a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, his professional interests include the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement; education policy and history; black holiday traditions; and racial equity and critical ethnic studies pedagogy. Dr. Mayes authored the book
Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African American Holiday Tradition and is currently working on The Unteachables: Civil Rights, Disability Rights and the Origins of Black Special Education. Dr. Mayes also established the Mayes Educational Group and Black Curriculum and Cultural Innovations, LLC.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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  • @pauldlwilson9680
    @pauldlwilson96802 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Mayes...you have the gravitas to not only speak the truth of this unique situation... but to articulate it in the spirit of truth...Blessing family!!!

  • @marlonmitchell338
    @marlonmitchell3385 жыл бұрын

    As an educator I totally agree my class is not called Language Arts its called Life Arts where you learn to read, think, and utilize the language to Open New Doors, eliminating excuses. Keep reading

  • @sonyahathaway5129

    @sonyahathaway5129

    4 жыл бұрын

    First year English Language Arts teacher here, I will be calling my class Life Arts from now on! Thanks 😊

  • @triple_gem_shining

    @triple_gem_shining

    9 ай бұрын

    🤪

  • @pachelbel1

    @pachelbel1

    7 ай бұрын

    @@sonyahathaway51293years later, have you fully imbibed the marxist culture of the American educational system? Are you fully indoctrinated? Has your school gone all-in on the radical trans ideology, gender identity and racial politics? Have all the social dilemmas been incorporated into all areas of your curriculum? Do you see the resultant stress and anxiety in the faces of your students-and in the silent complaints of your fellow teachers? How much of your instructional time, PD time and preparation time is free of incorporating the myriad social agendas? Don’t go along to get along. Speak out on the bullsh*t before you lose your soul, be one nothing more than a sellout, and cause immeasurable harm to the children whom you entered the profession to help.

  • @nextgenfatherhood7757
    @nextgenfatherhood77572 жыл бұрын

    Its great to see mentors like us teach functionality to the youth. Our community needs us and it starts with great leadership. Good work !

  • @marthalogie2274
    @marthalogie22743 жыл бұрын

    Very good, no amazing. This man needs to be heard. Thank you, Dr. Mayes.

  • @violamaria5979
    @violamaria59796 жыл бұрын

    Reading is fundamental. i love it

  • @fantashayuki5685
    @fantashayuki56854 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! So many people need to hear this!

  • @ottogreenjr.7857
    @ottogreenjr.78575 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dr. Mayes!!

  • @mixedchic7054
    @mixedchic70543 жыл бұрын

    This was very insightful. Thank you

  • @paulcastillo953
    @paulcastillo953 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much very informative

  • @robbied601
    @robbied6014 жыл бұрын

    Well said mate. I too had a similar journey. Great stuff.

  • @SuperMello21
    @SuperMello212 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @imnotanalky
    @imnotanalky4 жыл бұрын

    Reading feels like a form of reprimand to most kids of all races in all eras.

  • @pauldlwilson9680
    @pauldlwilson96802 жыл бұрын

    Powerful family!!!

  • @DJAnointed
    @DJAnointed Жыл бұрын

    Well spoken

  • @ibrahimgassama8362
    @ibrahimgassama83625 жыл бұрын

    Wow , that was great .

  • @g.gg.g4539
    @g.gg.g45394 жыл бұрын

    That's such a beautiful suit

  • @NursingLearningChannel
    @NursingLearningChannel5 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Yes!!!

  • @ConqeuringLion
    @ConqeuringLion5 жыл бұрын

    2 years after this video was posted and it has 7,000 views and 15 comments including this one. It’s a shame all this knowledge is going to waste :(

  • @blakedior7203

    @blakedior7203

    5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely not

  • @moniqueloomis9772

    @moniqueloomis9772

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@blakedior7203 I agree! We're here, aren't we?

  • @blakedior7203

    @blakedior7203

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@moniqueloomis9772 indeed we are

  • @AlexLopez-hn5ru

    @AlexLopez-hn5ru

    2 жыл бұрын

    To waste? Lol, but you were here and so were 7000 other people, haha.

  • @ericwilliamscell3755
    @ericwilliamscell37555 жыл бұрын

    Everything you mentioned has to be taught in college. Or must be learned by choice.

  • @TheKamakuraGardener
    @TheKamakuraGardener4 жыл бұрын

    Better late than never! 👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @nunyabiznys5169
    @nunyabiznys51697 ай бұрын

    We can't expect our children to be properly educated while in a state of captivity. We need to recognize that we are captive in the first place.

  • @sussoft
    @sussoft6 жыл бұрын

    nice

  • @jammin13rd
    @jammin13rd6 жыл бұрын

    An "intellectual insurgency" does not account for those who have different values. I am talking about basic core values like trait openness and in-group loyalty, not any specific cultural values.

  • @yblicensedsaleagent6402
    @yblicensedsaleagent64022 жыл бұрын

    Why are there several churches in the same neighborhood 🤔

  • @TrishNorwood8208
    @TrishNorwood82083 жыл бұрын

    can I do Detroit for TEDX Talk 🙋🏾‍♀️

  • @domck2457

    @domck2457

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can I co-facilitate!

  • @Urania4007
    @Urania40074 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for mentioning LGBT folk. Reading their books gave life meaning and helped me earn a Ph.D. in LGBT Studies

  • @Urania4007

    @Urania4007

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@derrickclark5364 Those by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895), first known LGBT activist, architect of LGBT pride, community and movement; as well as founder of LGBT studies as a social science

  • @knight4395

    @knight4395

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ph.d in LGBT Studies, what an utter waste of time!

  • @Urania4007

    @Urania4007

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@knight4395 It got me plenty of translation and teaching jobs -- for all of 45 years

  • @knight4395

    @knight4395

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Urania4007 Money down the drain old son, money down the drain!

  • @NoahBodze

    @NoahBodze

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great! Now get me my coffee!

  • @melvinwalters3366
    @melvinwalters33662 жыл бұрын

    I don't know; it seems that being educated in this European education system has become a curse to us as African-Americans, for some reason the more education we get the less we want to be around our kind there is no reason in theworld, that with the enormous amount of education and economics sucess we have achieved that we are still looking, hoping, and waiting for someone to do for us when we can definitely get it done for ourselves, is it the systemthats letting us down or are we letting our selves down? .

  • @johnathons1789
    @johnathons17895 жыл бұрын

    Affirmtive action

  • @wendellspivey3747

    @wendellspivey3747

    5 жыл бұрын

    Where do you think Affirmative action began?

  • @CA-pp5nx

    @CA-pp5nx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wendell Spivey with white people showing up in America from Europe and getting “affirmative action” ever since

  • @aaronsteele7085
    @aaronsteele70854 жыл бұрын

    The adults must change their minds in order to reach their own children. What are doing to push reading instead of weaves and jordans? Know your worth before Tv tells it for you .

  • @tjmomo82
    @tjmomo824 жыл бұрын

    This is a parents fault. However they are stressed beyond belief. So changing parents minds. Will change the kids minds.

  • @dr.yvette9109

    @dr.yvette9109

    Жыл бұрын

    Read Gifted Hands. It is not always the parent's fault.

  • @tjmomo82
    @tjmomo824 жыл бұрын

    Your dad changed your mind with telling you to read that book

  • @abdullazizwadi8934
    @abdullazizwadi89346 жыл бұрын

    from 2016 with 2,612 views and with 3 comments including mine only

  • @LoveMusicVideoArt

    @LoveMusicVideoArt

    5 жыл бұрын

    7 now! 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @ayymiserable568
    @ayymiserable5682 жыл бұрын

    uh its overkill gotcha bye

  • @africandefender2967
    @africandefender29676 жыл бұрын

    FANGA!I must say where is the platform for the poor uneducated they are the ones with the story,,,especially of how wealth eluded the African communities in America while other communities got a foot hold through corruption and allowed to prosper,,I must say he hit one,Europeans and Arabs....I did not go college I hated school,none the less I graduated I can definitely read better then some college grads,and will out wit them with common sense,,,my only issue is I don't have this platform or some degree,,,,at the same time is it worth it as we (African) people are constantly being attacked relentlessly....while our elites run away from people that look like them instead of building us by us.ASHAY! Y3 FRE3 ME STEVIE

  • @blakedior7203

    @blakedior7203

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ashe Brother Stevie !

  • @craigbrowning9448
    @craigbrowning94485 жыл бұрын

    ..also the Educational White Experience primarily represents Rich Whites.

  • @MosheGoldbergTheKing
    @MosheGoldbergTheKing Жыл бұрын

    "earned" a PhD....peak tokenism...

  • @liamsandal6360
    @liamsandal6360 Жыл бұрын

    This is racialist nonsense. I'd like to see TEDx sponsor a talk by a white teacher making a compelling case for how the white experience in the classroom could have remarkable impact. None of my teachers shared my culture and that mattered not one bit. I was a child, a student whose only job was to learn. By the way, TEDx, the word is not "impact". To impact is to collide; it has a negative denotation. Better words would be "influence" or "inspire".

  • @dr.yvette9109

    @dr.yvette9109

    Жыл бұрын

    The question is, What did you learn?

  • @nunyabiznys5169

    @nunyabiznys5169

    7 ай бұрын

    everyone in America gets the White experience in the classroom, and that is the problem

  • @nithionvanlithe9369
    @nithionvanlithe93695 жыл бұрын

    This guy has never been a teacher, he should give it a try, the he will see that many blacks are not interested in there own history

  • @nathanharding2518

    @nathanharding2518

    5 жыл бұрын

    not true.

  • @thefam6952

    @thefam6952

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is False

  • @johnathons1789

    @johnathons1789

    5 жыл бұрын

    What history lol

  • @nisaechols

    @nisaechols

    5 жыл бұрын

    Actually he taught me.. At a whole college imagine that..

  • @wendellspivey3747

    @wendellspivey3747

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@johnathons1789 Wgere do you think world history began?

  • @lawrenceracies9578
    @lawrenceracies95782 жыл бұрын

    Stop making race an issue. Just stop talking about it. Tired of the bs

  • @josephineleonard5262

    @josephineleonard5262

    Жыл бұрын

    The ignorance 🤣

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