Who Needs Multicultural Education? White Students, U.S. History, and the Construction of a Usable Past

Anthropology and Education Quarterly - Tập 27 Số 3 - Trang 365-389 - 1996
John S. Wills1,2
1John S. Wills: is an assistant professor in the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester.
2University of Rochester

Tóm tắt

This article evaluates the efforts of three teachers at a predominantly white middle school to create a multicultural U.S. history curriculum by focusing on the experiences of enslaved African Americans during the Civil War. I argue that this focus unintentionally undermines students' ability to use history as a resource for thinking about contemporary race relations. I conclude with some suggestions for creating a multicultural history curriculum that will benefit both white students and students of color.

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