What might be useful for discourse abt race: 1-page sheet on how historiography abt slavery & race has changed since olds were in school.
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I mean, people in former Warsaw Pact countries had a whole new history to learn after archives opened up. So did we, sort of.
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Also can't ignore the Texas/CA textbook problem. Texas has been using its size to make us willfully stupid about race for some time.
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Ditto what Harris said
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@alharrisjr86 There are people who thru little fault of own may not know how/why mass incarceration happened, how econ relied on slavery -
So for people who are willing to read but simply hasn't it'd be useful to say, "here's the stuff you may not understand bc you're old."
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I agree,learn by comparing the two periods of US econ. expansion: the late 19th c.(cheap labor due 2 slavery, land theft) to post WWII.
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This Boomer was never taught about Reconstruction's effects on blacks in American History. :(
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