In her recent book A Political Education, Elizabeth Todd-Breland tells the story of black education reform in Chicago since the modern civil rights movement. In doing so, she demonstrates how black educators and communities have ceaselessly fought against white supremacist structures that perpetuate racial and class disparities, and shows how their victories, though important, were often undermined by these same structures. More importantly, Todd-Breland uncovers the forgotten stories and contributions of black women educators and activists at the heart of these movements that were heretofore disregarded in favor of those of their male counterparts. Writing against patriarchal norms that historically sidestep women’s contributions, Todd-Breland organizes her historical analysis around the stories of these women.

在她最近的《政治教育》一书中，伊丽莎白·托德·布雷兰德（Elizabeth Todd-Breland）讲述了自现代民权运动以来芝加哥黑人教育改革的故事。在这样做的过程中，她展示了黑人教育者和社区如何与白人至上主义结构不断地斗争，白人至上主义结构使种族和阶级差距长期存在，并展示了尽管他们的胜利虽然很重要，但是却经常受到这些相同结构的破坏。更重要的是，托德·布雷兰德（Todd-Breland）在黑人运动的核心发现了黑人女性教育者和激进主义者被遗忘的故事和所作的贡献，而这些运动迄今都没有受到男性同伴的青睐。托德·布雷兰德（Todd-Breland）违反了历史上回避妇女贡献的父权制规范，围绕这些妇女的故事组织了她的历史分析。