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How Textbooks Made America Not So Great

Some of My Best Friends Are

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Teaching White Supremacy, America's Democratic or Deal, and the Forging of Our National Identity

Donald Yachavon wrote a book about the history of teaching white supremacy throughout American history. He read over 200 textbooks published and taught in U.S. schools from basically the early 1800s to the 1980s. "There is an extraordinary emphasis upon whiteness," he says.

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