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How Textbooks Made America Not So Great

Some of My Best Friends Are

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How Do You Teach American History?

Khalil and I were in public schools in Chicago in the 1980s. We're reading history textbooks. And so collective we in all of these textbooks is always a white collective we. Yeah. American identity is white identity. Exactly. Unless they specifically refer to red savages, which is the usual way they refer to Native inhabitants in North America.

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