The depiction of African-Americans in popular high school United States history textbooks published in the period 1968-1971 and their revised editions published in 1990-1995

[摘要] The purpose of this study was to compare the depictions of African-Americans inU.S. History textbooks in the years 1968-1971 with the revised textbooks from the samepublishers published between 1990-1995. A total of seven U.S. History textbooks wereused in this study and were selected by their 1995 publishing rank order. Four textbookswere used for a comparative analysis and were examined page by page. Two textbookswere surveyed for additional information. A seventh textbook was used as a multiculturalmodel and compared with the three revised texts.Eleven historical topics were evaluated in each of the textbooks. Topics andsubcategories emerged during the content analysis of the initial textbooks. The authorassigned an estimation of the number of paragraphs assigned to each topic. The revisedtexts dedicated more information to the history of African-Americans and the informationtended to take account of African-Americans perspectives. Conclusions concerning areasof strength in each of the revised textbooks were given.

[发布机构] University of Wisconsin

[效力级别] United States--History--Textbooks

[关键词] African Americans--History--Study and teaching (Secondary);United States--History--Textbooks;United States--History--Study and teaching (Secondary)