Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy Binding:Paperback even though the other kids

even though the other kids do not

Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again

Amid tricky divorce proceedings

she suffers from hyperempathy—a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions

is under siege

Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy Binding:Paperback even though the other kidsThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power