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Thread #129429   Message #2914007
Posted By: GUEST,999
25-May-10 - 12:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Arizona law targeting ethnic studies
Subject: RE: BS: Arizona law targeting ethnic studies
I would suggest that because history tends to take the perspective of the writer, much of what is in school texts is already biased.

When Olive P Dickason wrote "Myth of the Savage" she demonstrated clearly that the Iroquois had a functioning democracy in mid-eastern Canada and north-astern US long before Europeans ever came here. That is largely ignored.

I know of fewhistory texts used below undergraduate level that fairly treat Blacks, Mexicans, Asians or Native North Americans. Much of what I can gather from Arizona (and elsewhere) is that those in charge deem studies that present a White perspective to be quite alright. Other stuff then becomes so-called "ethnic studies." How quaint.