Teach Truth, Jesse Hagopian
Teach Truth, Jesse Hagopian
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Teach Truth
The Struggle for Antiracist Education

Author: Jesse Hagopian

Narrator: Amir Abdullah

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/13/2026


Synopsis

In just the last few years, scores of states have introduced or passed legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about structural racism and other forms of oppression. Books have been cut from curricula and pulled from school library shelves. Teachers have been fired and threatened with discipline.

As longtime organizer, writer, and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian argues in Teach Truth, what's at stake is the freedom to tell the truth, the ability of students to understand the world they live in, and the preservation of knowledge systems that expose injustice. By exploring the roots and reach of the censorship movement, Hagopian shows how these efforts to suppress truth serve to uphold racial capitalism and silence the histories that threaten entrenched power.

Yet the struggle for a liberatory education has a long history in the United States, from the days when it was illegal for Black people to be literate, to the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, to Black Lives Matter at School today. Teachers, students, and their allies are already building a movement—in the classroom, on campus, and in the streets—to defend antiracist education.

About Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian is a member of the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and teaches ethnic studies at Seattle's Garfield High School. Jesse is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, coeditor of Teaching for Black Lives, and the editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on March 20, 2025

Having read a book my grad class (of teachers) chose to read, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Blacks and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve Ewing, they decided to read this book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education by Jesse Hagopian, whch I also had no......more

Goodreads review by Ben on January 14, 2025

This book is to me a unique blend of historical research, personal discovery, theoretical framework, and story-telling of resistance. I loved the conceptual frameworks of "uncritical race theory" and "educational arson" as ways to capture and understand our moment in the timeline and where we are si......more

Goodreads review by Sam on March 26, 2025

With the conservative Right going on a renewed offensive in education, it’s important that progressive-minded teachers are clear about how to resist. Racism – and opposition to it – have been a consistent feature of US education. Conservatives view virtually any attempt to question the racism woven......more

Goodreads review by Bakari on June 16, 2025

"Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education" by Jesse Hagopian is an incredibly important and timely book that I believe teachers, students, community activists, and advocates for public education should read. It's a powerful call to action for anyone who wants to protect the integrity of ed......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on March 05, 2025

Teach Truth is a powerful call to defend education from censorship and injustice. Jesse Hagopian blends history, theory, and storytelling to highlight the courageous educators and students fighting for truth in schools. With sharp analysis and inspiring voices of resistance, this book is both a warn......more