How Does Nazi army Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools
Posted by: John Phoenix
September 25, 2024
Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Israeli scholar (photo)
Palestinian identity in Israeli schoolbooks is either infantilized, demonized, or ignored, according to Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan.
By George Yancy, reposted from Truthout
In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans often revealed by their words and actions that they viewed [Black people] as a permanently alien and unassimilable element of the population.” Within the context of white American domination, anti-Black racist stereotypes framed Black people as inherently unfit, innately problematic and divorced from the category of the human, a category tha...