Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks
eBook - ePub

Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks

The Politics of Historical Oblivion

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eBook - ePub

Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks

The Politics of Historical Oblivion

About this book

This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the 1950s to 2022, the book documents stories of White victory and domination over Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) groups that disproportionately fill educational curricula. While representation and accurate information of non-White perspectives improves over time, the same limited tropes tend to be recycled from one textbook to the next. Textual analysis is augmented by focus groups and interviews with BIPOC students in California high schools. Together, the data show how misrepresentation and absence of BIPOC perspectives in textbooks impact youth identity. This book argues for an innovative rethinking of US history curricula to consider which stories are told, and which perspectives are represented.


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Yes, you can access Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks by Mneesha Gellman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Early Childhood Education. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9783031503528
eBook ISBN
9783031503535
Edition
0
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Early Childhood Education

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Why and How Textbooks Matter for Youth Wellbeing
  4. 2. Misrepresentation in Educational Media (1954–1999)
  5. 3. Textbooks in Far Northern California High Schools in 2007–2022
  6. 4. Teaching to the Test: Undermining Academic Rebellion (2020s)
  7. 5. Kids These Days: Ethnographic Evidence on the Impact of Textbook Misrepresentation
  8. 6. Conclusion: In Need of a Curricular Revolution
  9. Back Matter