Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks The Politics of Historical Oblivion /

• Main Author: Gellman, Mneesha (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media,
• Subjects: Education > Curricula.; Education.; Children.; Citizenship > Study and teaching.; Education and state.; United States > History.; Social justice.; Curriculum Studies.; Childhood Education.; Citizenship Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; US History.; Social Justice.
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Summary

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.

Physical Description

XXI, 117 p. online resource.

ISBN

9783031503535

ISSN

2662-737X

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-50353-5

Access

Open Access