These past few months Ive been doing deep dives into American history from non-white perspectives. Its amazed me to see how much history we white/euro wash to appease predominantly Caucasian schools.

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“Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen and “A People's History of the United States” by Howard Zinn are good primers.

+ all the references in the back of the books

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Like someone stated early, we learn school history from the perspective of the “winners.” So yes, it IS to push a narrative. One that shows many different people groups have fought back against the status quo, numerous times, because it only serves some while exploiting many.

Isn’t that the point of this whole thread? To learn the other side of the story?

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Ex: We learn about Columbus discovering the Americas, but not that he was sent back to Spain in chains for tyrannically ruling over the indigenous people

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Well Columbus brought the Spanish empire great wealth.

Spanish colonization was significant throughout the Americas.

History is written from the perspective of the “winner”

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Sadly, very true

Wonder how many people here know about Japanese internment camps and the Chinese exclusion act

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That was the most case interview answer ever, I love it

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A&M. Most schools are predom white. White will be a relative majority for long time... much larger than any single other group

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Yes. Another example is that the most important events took place in Asia during the middle ages, as opposed to Europe as is commonly portrayed in western schools.

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Non-American here. I had to educate my American teammates on the Tulsa massacre while we were discussing the Watchmen tv show. I knew of this ugly event well before I entered the US.

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lol OP what do you think happened in the 15th century? That people were having a fair trial then paid a fine for stealing things?
Jeez.. these things were just standard practices. You can be sure that any of the historical leaders did some barbaric things you can’t even imagine, and that’s valid for all races.

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Unfortunately you can say this same thing about most historical depiction.

This includes:
-Religion
-Any historical empire

Where are you finding predominantly Caucasian schools in America? Are you aware of the demographics of the u18 group?

I went to a relatively poor, majority white working class school

Our district was directly adjacent to a very poor, majority African American school

It is somewhat improved but even now, remains a clear illustration of racial segregation, gerrymandering and red-lining

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