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--Publishers Weekly, starred review
While the discord around the mascot is a long-standing one in the Virginia community, the assignment empowers the students to take the issue to the school board. The creators eschew judgment to present a well-rounded discussion about classism and racism, as well as effective allyship, with compassion and understanding.
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Valley Regional High School’s Racist Mascot
Valley Regional High School’s mascot and athletics logo reductively stereotypes diverse Native American society as a piece of disrespectfully homogenizing imagery. The “warrior head” icon and the team name “Warriors” are both harmful representations of indigenous peoples and local heritage.
The logo itself is a backwards facing duplicate of the widely protested Washington NFL team logo, against which there is a current movement supported by the NCAI (National Congress of American Indians). This logo was designed during a historical period of assimilation, oppression, and political persecution of Native American tribes and populations. Throughout the United States at this time, imagery like the logo was used to dehumanize and denigrate the racial identity of Native Americans. The Washington NFL logo, and the Valley Regional High School athletic logo, which is identical, are remnants of these prejudiced times.
Across Connecticut, many high schools have successfully altered racially offensive vocabulary and imagery in their general advertising. In West Hartford, a town wide initiative successfully pushed for local schools to drop their racist mascots and team names. Northwest Catholic, Conard, and Hall all made efforts to eliminate their racist advertising. Though Conard and Hall kept their offensive team names, at the very least their logos were dropped. In Maine, legislation has been passed prohibiting the continued use of racially stereotypical or offensive advertising. A similar bill has been proposed in our neighboring state of Massachusetts.
The reasons that the usage of such imagery is detrimental to our community are numerous and well defined by the NCAI. Above all such imagery enables the persistence of a systemic portrayal of Native Americans as inferior.
This petition calls on the Fourth Regional School District of Connecticut to halt Valley Regional High School’s racism. Students and alumni, such as myself, seek a more adequate education about and celebration of indigenous heritage especially on an immediately local level. It is time to heed the words of the activists who have spoken out against the usage of this imagery across our nation, as both members and allies of the populations it affects.
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A glance at the cover of the novel-in-verse MASCOT will tell you where it stands on this issue. ("Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition, '" is printed above a painted-over image of a feathers-wearing, tomahawkwielding Indian.) Written by Charles Waters ("African Town") and Traci Sorell (a member of the Cherokee Nation and author of "We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga"), the book tracks how young minds can change over a single school year.
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