Heroic national history curricula erase the categories needed to claim racial redress

Evidence

This individualization of heroic history, “so our children can grow up learning what it means to be American,” is designed to remove the categories for claiming redress, to remove the stain of pained group histories from the national record, to make children American, to nationalize them, by lobotomizing racial violence from historical consciousness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 137

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s research on threatened-privilege mobilization: erasing redress categories through patriotic curricular framing is a mechanism by which privileged groups avoid institutional acknowledgment. — connects to: National museums omit annihilated groups, erasing their claim to the nation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 135; American school curricula systematically erased imperialist, genocidal, and capitalist dimensions of national history — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 352; Erasing racial categories from public accounting also erases the discrimination they record — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1772 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Heroic national histories are engineered to block redress claims #corroborates (0.98)
• American school curricula systematically erased imperialist, genocidal, and capitalist dimensions of national history #expands (0.95) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 352
• Erasing racial categories from public accounting also erases the discrimination they record #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1772
• Four states have made teaching black history illegal if it induces guilt or shame #exemplifies (0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 44
• Colonial classifications imposed race categories that subjects never recognized as their own #expands (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 650
• School curricula depict slavery as an aberration rather than a foundational institution #exemplifies (0.78) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 29
• Teaching Black history in schools remains elective rather than required #exemplifies (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 69
• Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 123
• The same racial classification can be denounced or demanded depending on national context #qualifies (0.72)
• The ‘Negro’ category erased Africa’s contributions to Western civilization #exemplifies (0.72)
• School curricula encode racial hierarchies that erase children of Color’s culture. #qualifies (0.70) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 260