Race, Memory, and Master Narratives: A Critical Essay on U.S. Curriculum History

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Notes

Notes

1 See Appendix A for the list of 33 texts used for this analysis. Some of these were also used as references and can be found on Appendix A or on the reference list.

2 The Harlem Renaissance, Freedom Schools, and the Chicano Arts Movement were all social movements that produced volumes of poetry, school curriculum, and writings concerning the raced and classed position of African American and Chicanos. These particular movements resided outside of the academy and weretied to broader cultural and civil right movements.

3 By “Woodsian curriculum” we are referring to the corpus of his work that examined, deconstructed, and revised curriculum through multiple educational spaces such as academic publishing, school textbooks, Black editorials and community education (see King, Crowley, & Brown, ).

4 Rethinking Schools, the Zinn Educational Project, and Tucson's Mexican American Studies program are all educational programs that have provided critical and multicultural curriculum. Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher of educational materials. The Zinn Educational Project is an online resource to help educators use articles and lessons based on the work of historian Howard Zinn. The Tucson Mexican American Studies program is school curriculum produced by a select group of Tucson educators that focuses on issues of critical history and cultural relevance.