Chronicling sankofa: The evolution of the work of James Banks and civic education

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Notes

1. We make the conscious choice to lowercase the racial term white. While white as a racial category is not neutral, there is a growing movement among scholars and activists to stop capitalizing the racial identification of white (e.g, Bauder, 2020; Gotanda, 1991). Capitalizing white reinforces the idea that whiteness is a norm and should be privileged, and that people of color are “other.” By decapitalizing white, we can challenge the historical power dynamics in a small but important way to dismantle these harmful ideologies.