"Rothstein critiqued textbooks published by TCI (History Alive!), Pearson-Prentice Hall, and Holt McDougall for their passive, misleading language. One of the books states, “African Americans found themselves forced into segregated neighborhoods” with no further explanation of how this happened or how public policy was responsible.
Jacobson was dismayed to find out that her son’s Pearson textbook followed the same pattern of mythmaking...
"While we’re revising textbooks, let’s correct two other problems.
The term “slaves” should be uniformly replaced with “enslaved people” so culpability for this heinous practice rests where it belongs (The Post, too, should commit to this change: language matters). And let’s stop whitewashing the federally authorized housing discrimination that was—and still is—one of the principal causes of race-based economic inequality today.""
http://zinnedproject.org/2016/01/textbooks-housing-segregation/
Important. It's so necessary to understand how segregation was made, instead of waving at it. There is so much important history that I missed that helps to explain my place in America, but wasn't on my AP exam because I guess it might have made my white classmates uncomfortable?
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