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Book Displays: Equal Justice Initiative 2023: Web Sites

Online Articles

Teaching Hard History
By Kate Shuster, Southern Poverty Law Center (1/31/18)
How textbooks taught white supremacy
By Liz Mineo, The Harvard Gazette (9/4/20)
The Problem of Bias in US History Textbooks and Curriculum
American University School of Education Blog Post (5/24/21)
The Greatest Battle in History - America is once again asking the question: Who gets to decide how we teach the history of our country’s past?
By Grace Tatter, Harvard Ed. Magazine (Fall 2021)
African Americans say the teaching of Black history is under threat
By Joe Heim and Lori Rozsa, The Washington Post (2/23/22)
Why Teachers Are Afraid to Teach History
By Rachel M. Cohen, The New Republic (3/28/22)
What Reading 220 History Textbooks Taught One Scholar About Racism in America
By Olivia B. Waxman, Time Magazine (9/27/22)

Online Resources

Teaching History with Integrity
American Historical Association
Anti-CRT Mania and Book Bans are the Latest Tactics to Halt Racial Justice
By Ishena Robinson, Legal Defense Fund (no date)

Journal Articles

Rx for Racism: Imperatives for America’s Schools
By Gerald J. Pine and Asa G. Hilliard, III (Phi Delta Kappan, April 1990)
“The why and the white”: Racism and curriculum reform in British geography
By James Esson (The Royal Geographic Society, 8/8/18)
“Intensely white”: psychology curricula and the (re)production of racism
By Sarah Gillborn et. al. (Educational Review, 10/12/21)