I actually had a teacher that pointed out the 13th amendment prison exemption.
She was also a black muslim, as in actually wearing a hijab. (the point of this being that it was diverse af and not just white teachers)
Also focused a lot on COINTELPRO and the spying on civil right leaders that type of stuff.
And the Jim Crow stuff, sharecropping… etc…
Also that the emancipation proclamation itself probably did not free any enslaved people, since they only applied to rebelling states, which would obviously ignore it.
(Philly btw… my school was rated so bad btw… like 2/10 on the greatschool .org thing lots of fightings and stuff, the point being that its not some rich neighborhood)
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(
Just a brief mention and that’s all, probably why racism towards Asian Americans are still so common and still socially acceptable… :(
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(
Same. Except for the Japanese Internment Camps…which was covered in English Lit for some reason.
As far as my high school history curriculum went, Asia , South America, and most of Africa simply did not exist. Africa only got mentioned for Egypt and slave-trade. South America because of the conquistadors and stopping there.
In the same vein as the first comment, you were also likely taught that slavery ended in the 19th century with the end of the Civil War.
I actually had a teacher that pointed out the 13th amendment prison exemption.
She was also a black muslim, as in actually wearing a hijab. (the point of this being that it was diverse af and not just white teachers)
Also focused a lot on COINTELPRO and the spying on civil right leaders that type of stuff.
And the Jim Crow stuff, sharecropping… etc…
Also that the emancipation proclamation itself probably did not free any enslaved people, since they only applied to rebelling states, which would obviously ignore it.
(Philly btw… my school was rated so bad btw… like 2/10 on the greatschool .org thing lots of fightings and stuff, the point being that its not some rich neighborhood)
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(
Just a brief mention and that’s all, probably why racism towards Asian Americans are still so common and still socially acceptable… :(
Same. Except for the Japanese Internment Camps…which was covered in English Lit for some reason.
As far as my high school history curriculum went, Asia , South America, and most of Africa simply did not exist. Africa only got mentioned for Egypt and slave-trade. South America because of the conquistadors and stopping there.