Powerful, unifying analysis that brings together the stakes of diverse "out-cultures" and illuminates why this injustice matters for all of us (including why it SHOULD matter for white supremacist cultures).
And AP European History has been on the class codes since time immemorial. It was one of eight or so AP courses back at goold ole Wade Hampton High when I was a student.
My formative narrative won't clock as "controversial" to me. It's the normative formative (if you will) so there's nothing to see. It's the capital T Truth. That's what AP European History is to people much like myself...while, for those who have their own non-normative formative narratives, AP European History is controversial, disturbing, rife with trauma, and it centers the views of others. It's still worth interrogating with curiosity and even some measure of wonder. The idea that AP African American History is too controversial or too disturbing to those it does not center may be true - but they don't connect the dots from that to cancellation. Controversy and disturbing add spice and texture to the material. They are features, not flaws, to a history curriculum...at least one where the aim is not to "win' and dominate some bizarre battle of cultures that people imagine themselves to be fighting.
Powerful, unifying analysis that brings together the stakes of diverse "out-cultures" and illuminates why this injustice matters for all of us (including why it SHOULD matter for white supremacist cultures).
And AP European History has been on the class codes since time immemorial. It was one of eight or so AP courses back at goold ole Wade Hampton High when I was a student.
My formative narrative won't clock as "controversial" to me. It's the normative formative (if you will) so there's nothing to see. It's the capital T Truth. That's what AP European History is to people much like myself...while, for those who have their own non-normative formative narratives, AP European History is controversial, disturbing, rife with trauma, and it centers the views of others. It's still worth interrogating with curiosity and even some measure of wonder. The idea that AP African American History is too controversial or too disturbing to those it does not center may be true - but they don't connect the dots from that to cancellation. Controversy and disturbing add spice and texture to the material. They are features, not flaws, to a history curriculum...at least one where the aim is not to "win' and dominate some bizarre battle of cultures that people imagine themselves to be fighting.