With new discussions and debates about the changes needed to the curriculum of the United States Education System, especially in the area of history which scholars say that the curriculum leans toward an euro-centric model of teaching with information about European Countries and the Anglo-Saxon move to the United States. I wanted to look at American History and analyze it to see how much information is in books about African Americans and the details of the African American Culture in the United States.
In previous studies it was found that most major changes in the curriculum to add African Americans in the late 1960's. Since this period the appearance of more information on African Americans has surfaced in History Books, but some scholars say that it is not enough. In California, the state curriculum commission rejected 16 of 26 new history and social-studies textbooks, on the basis that the books fail to focus enough attention on minorities. (Tifft, 95) Cameron McCarthy......
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