Overview
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āThe most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.ā āHenry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
āStunning, timely . . . an achievement in writing public history . . . Teaching White Supremacy should be read widely in our roiling debate over how to teach about race and slavery in classrooms." āDavid W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University; author of the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacyās deep-seated roots in our nationās educational system through a fascinating, in-depth examination of Americaās wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks, from popular histories to the most influential academic scholarship. Sifting through a wealth of materials from the colonial era to today, Yacovone reveals the systematic ways in which this ideology has infiltrated all aspects of American culture and how it has been at the heart of our collective national identity.
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Yacovone lays out the arc of Americaās white supremacy from the countryās inception and Revolutionary War years to its nineteenth-century flashpoint of civil war to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and todayās Black Lives Matter. In a stunning reappraisal, the author argues that it is the North, not the South, that bears the greater responsibility for creating the dominant strain of race theory, which has been inculcated throughout the culture and in school textbooks that restricted and repressed African Americans and other minorities, even as Northerners blamed the South for its legacy of slavery, segregation, and racial injustice.
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A major assessment of how we got to where we are today, of how white supremacy has suffused every area of American learning, from literature and science to religion, medicine, and law, and why this kind of thinking has so insidiously endured for more than three centuries.
This book title, Teaching White Supremacy (America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity) - 9780593467169, ISBN: 9780593467169, by Donald Yacovone, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (September 12, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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