The full title of the book is Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity, Donald Yacovone. No I haven't read the book, yet, but the author spoke at the OFH this afternoon, and tomorrow there will be roundtable discussion with him over lunch. He is an associate at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American research.
Yacovone, in preparation for writing his book, read the history text books archived in Harvard's Library. This was no small task as he began with 1830 and read into the 1980s. What he discovered was the blatant white superiority taught in these text books accompanied with denigration of African Americans. The brochure announcing his lecture states "Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated roots in our nation's educational system through a fascinating, in-depth examination of America's wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks, from popular histories to the most influential academic scholarship."
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