ALT Since September 2020, a total of 206 local and state government entities across 43 states have adopted 301 measures, such as policies and resolutions, to prohibit teaching, curricula, and trainings about racism and critical race theory in K–12 education. Recent executive orders, including Executive Order No. 14190, have extended these measures at the federal level and originated from concerns that Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 seeded animosity and blame toward White youth for structural racism. These policies present challenges for culturally relevant education, which uses students’ customs and lived experiences to improve classroom instruction and foster their critical consciousness. [continued at link]

ALT This essay proposes a novel paradigm for a political theory of climate justice: wages for earthwork. Indigenous peoples have disproportionately contributed to the sustainable stewardship of the natural world through ecological systems of governance, which I theorize as “earthwork.” Proponents of climate reparations have focused on reparations for unequal climate damages from emissions. By contrast, I propose “wages” or reparations to Indigenous peoples for debt owed to them for their devalued climate work. This framework makes use of an analogy to the 1970s feminist wages for housework movement, which sought to reveal the exploited and yet indispensable character of systematically devalued work rendered natural and invisible. I contend that (re)valuing earthwork must also be central to projects aimed at decolonizing climate justice, that is, anticolonial climate justice. [cont. at link]