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Is school reform about replacing blackness?
Fifth-graders from D.C.’s Watkins Elementary School (By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News)
Here is an original look at the modern school reform movement. It was written by Natalie Hopkinson is a Washington-based writer, and author of “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City”. This appeared on The Root D.C., where she is a contributing editor. She can be reached at NHopkinson@hotmail.com.
By Natalie Hopkinson
I was among a group of writers, musicians and scholars of go-go music presenting at aseminar for D.C. social studies teachers last month when moderator Kenny Carroll asked me a provocative question.
He was sharing some reactions to the renewed attention being paid to go-go—D.C.’s unique brand of funk that has been popular among generations of working-class black
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