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IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

—Party slogan, 1984

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I feel stupid and contagious.

—Nirvana

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Feed ‘em shit and keep ‘em in the dark.

—Mushroom treatment

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Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

—Adolf Hitler

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Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

—James Baldwin

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’We are committing educational malpractice’: Why slavery is mistaught—and worse—in American schools

Rethinking schools

White parents rallied to chase a Black educator out of town. Then they followed her to the next one.

Erasing the Black freedom struggle: how state standards fail to teach the truth about Reconstruction

If we knew our history

Telling the truth about slavery is not ‘indoctrination’

How a conservative activist invented the conflict over ‘critical race theory’

What is the strawman fallacy? · strawman defined

‘Critical race theory’ is the ultimate strawman

The GOP’s ‘critical race theory’ obsession

The conflict campaign: exploring local experiences of the campaign to ban “critical race theory” in public K–12 education in the U.S., 2020–2021

Book bans are targeting the history of oppression

Educational gag orders

PEN America book bans

More books are banned than ever before

How banning books marginalizes children

Moral panic in the classroom

Read the books that schools want to ban

You just can’t tell the truth about America anymore

Why states are banning ‘critical race theory’

The G.O.P. is making ‘critical race theory’ the new ‘shariah law’

The right’s new reason to panic about ‘critical race theory’ is actually centuries old

What Americans really think about ‘critical race theory’

‘Shocking levels of ignorance’

63 percent of millennials & Gen Z did not know 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust

America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust

Teachers tackle Black history month, under new restrictions

Teachers could face penalties for lessons on race, gender, politics

A white teacher taught white students about white privilege; it cost him his job.

Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments show why we need critical race analysis · the connection to the origins of how racism works in America

For Black parents resisting white-washed history homeschooling is an increasingly popular option

Who gets to be an American?

Just say ‘slavery’

How were you taught about slavery?

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