Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Publication Title

The Social Studies

Abstract

This article is a reflection on the teaching of black history after the Obama presidency and at the dawn of the Trump era. It is both an analysis of the state of the academic field and a primer on how to integrate the past few decades of scholarship in black history broadly across standard K-12 curriculum. It demonstrates the importance of theorizing black history as American history rather than just including African American content in US History courses and offers specific methods that can shift the narrative in this direction even within the confines of a more traditional telling of the American past. Finally, it situates the voluminous work of historians of the black past as critical interventions in pedagogy necessary to challenge today’s unrelenting attacks on public education.

Original Citation

Karen Sotiropoulos. (2017). Teaching Black History after Obama, The Social Studies, 108:4, 121-128, DOI: 10.1080/00377996.2017.1342160

Volume

108

Issue

4

DOI

10.1080/00377996.2017.1342160

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Postprint

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