teaching a U.S. history course that avoids talking about racism and its impacts on politics and policy is like drawing a map of the U.S. that avoids the Mississippi River watershed. it exists, it's right there in the middle touching everything else, it's an integral part of understanding the rest.
The many manifestations of racism — slavery, segregation, etc — were an integral part of not just African American history, but American history.
Denying that reality and pretending racism wasn’t a serious problem is, in itself, racist.
My memory from doing ads for a university press may fail me, but doesn't the AHA publish a magazine for high school history teachers? Any editorial policies or backlash there?
