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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829580803321

Autore

Gellman Mneesha

Titolo

Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks : The Politics of Historical Oblivion / / by Mneesha Gellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031503535

3031503538

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Educational Media, , 2662-737X

Disciplina

973.0712

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.