Avantika Shrestha
Professor Kwak
HNRS 101-01
Reading Notes on Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Introduction (pg. 1-9)
History provides us the blueprint of how we became to be what we are today
History is often the subject that high school students find the most boring and irrelevant; often a high school subject that makes you dumber, the more you learn
"American history is full of fascinating and important stories"; it often captivates and entices its audiences but students often find history books boring as even when they aim for drama and conflicts, the ending will always have the same message, "all was fine in the end"
Even privileged students find that history is often "too neat and rosy" whereas students of color tend to view …show more content…
Chapter 5, Gone With the Wind (pg. 135-171)
Ignoring the settlement of Native Americans, the first non-Native settlers of the US were black slaves that rebelled against their Spaniard capturers
"Race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life"; a predominant topic in American history that cannot be ignored is racial slavery
Race plays an important factor in politics and many pop culture aspects dealt with racial issues such as Gone With The Wind; but showcasing slavery as "a social structure of harmony and grace that did no harm to anyone, white or black"
Today, textbooks showcase the lack of freedom and inhuman treatment of slaves; they also divulge on how slavery affected politics in the nineteenth century as the ideology behind slavery became more overtly racist in the …show more content…
of one African American a day; white Democrats in Louisiana killed 1081 people and many more; violence was only a visible resistance against African
Professor Kwak
HNRS 101-01
Reading Notes on Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Introduction (pg. 1-9)
History provides us the blueprint of how we became to be what we are today
History is often the subject that high school students find the most boring and irrelevant; often a high school subject that makes you dumber, the more you learn
"American history is full of fascinating and important stories"; it often captivates and entices its audiences but students often find history books boring as even when they aim for drama and conflicts, the ending will always have the same message, "all was fine in the end"
Even privileged students find that history is often "too neat and rosy" whereas students of color tend to view …show more content…
Chapter 5, Gone With the Wind (pg. 135-171)
Ignoring the settlement of Native Americans, the first non-Native settlers of the US were black slaves that rebelled against their Spaniard capturers
"Race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life"; a predominant topic in American history that cannot be ignored is racial slavery
Race plays an important factor in politics and many pop culture aspects dealt with racial issues such as Gone With The Wind; but showcasing slavery as "a social structure of harmony and grace that did no harm to anyone, white or black"
Today, textbooks showcase the lack of freedom and inhuman treatment of slaves; they also divulge on how slavery affected politics in the nineteenth century as the ideology behind slavery became more overtly racist in the …show more content…
of one African American a day; white Democrats in Louisiana killed 1081 people and many more; violence was only a visible resistance against African