Checking Out Me History Flashcards
1
Q
Who wrote Checking Out Me History
A
Agard
2
Q
Dem tell me / Dem
A
tell me / Wha dem want to tell me
3
Q
Bandage up me eye
A
with me own history
4
Q
Blind me to me
A
own identity
5
Q
Dem tell me about Dick Whittington and his cat/
A
but Toussaint L’Ouverture / No dem never tell me about dat
6
Q
Toussaint de beacon
A
of de Haitian Revolution
7
Q
Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492
A
but what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too
8
Q
From Jamaica /
A
she travel far
9
Q
I checking out
A
me own history
10
Q
I carving out
A
me own identity
11
Q
what is the context of checking out me history
A
the erasure and repression of minorities’ identity’s within the school system and no celebration of other historical figures that aren’t white and male
