Miseducation Of The Negro Analysis

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Miseducation of the Negro argues the concept on the systemic education and church organization that have been embedded throughout history affecting the African Americans’. The misrepresentation of history in schools has demeaned what Africans have made and accomplish throughout history, such as the sciences, and mathematics. Instead, ought out the African influence and fabric history in our American education system. Yet, when referencing blacks throughout history, there are depicted as diminishing and justifying slavery as a higher cause of economics and the dominant race. Furthermore, the educated “negro” lacks knowledge of his own heritage commanding him to forever remain subordinate to the whites. The purpose of educating the “negro”

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