Uncle Tom's Cabin

Today's thread will focus on the invisibility of racism in history textbooks.   What your history teacher told you: Over the years white America has told itself varying stories about the enslavement of blacks. In each of the last two centuries America's ,most popular novel was set in slavery- Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone With the Wind. Until the Civil Rights … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Lies My Teacher Told Me