The Status of Racial Representations in North Carolina Elementary Social Studies Textbooks
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- May 2, 2020
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Jenkins, Ashley
- Affiliation: School of Education
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to explore the patterns of racial inclusions and exclusions in elementary social studies textbooks. To do this, a case study was performed on United States History, Canada, Mexico, & Central America (Harcourt, 2003), which is a textbook by a major publisher adopted by a central North Carolina school system. The study looked at each instance of racial interaction in the textbook, and explored the type of resource (text, primary source, etc.), the context of the inclusion, the racial group(s) mentioned, and the type of inclusion (stereotype, marginalization, partial accuracy, accurate, hero making, and villain making). Overall, there were strong biases against racial minorities portrayed in this book, which leads to the conclusion that work needs to be done to improve portrayals of these groups in historical and modern contexts in order to best meet the needs of our students.
- Date of publication
- spring 2017
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- Rights statement
- In Copyright
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Bolick, Cheryl
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Extent
- 107
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