An ideological agenda for history

[...]the Standards' lessons on the war's effects focused on women in the war effort, the internment of the Nisei, the anti-Hispanic "zoot suit" riots, and the contributions of African, Mexican, and Native Americans. [...]it did no such thing, but it persuaded me that the patrioti...

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Published in:Academic questions 1999-03, Vol.12 (1), p.29-35
Main Author: McDougall, Walter A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achebe, Chinua
African Americans
African Culture
African literature
British & Irish literature
College Curriculum
Cultural Pluralism
Elementary Education
Elementary Schools
English
English literature
Essays
Feminism
Gender Discrimination
History Instruction
Ideology
Illustrations
Indian literature
Multiculturalism & pluralism
National Standards
Nigerian literature
Postcolonialism
Racial Differences
Rushdie, Salman
Scholarship
Students
Urban Areas
War
White Students
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Summary:[...]the Standards' lessons on the war's effects focused on women in the war effort, the internment of the Nisei, the anti-Hispanic "zoot suit" riots, and the contributions of African, Mexican, and Native Americans. [...]it did no such thing, but it persuaded me that the patriotic myth that Bonevac, Cantor, McDougall, and Patai 33 supposedly dominated frontier historiography is itself a myth. [...]during the 1980s, my colleagues and I at Berkeley were merely bemused when certain faculty turned to postmodernism, deconstruction, and radical feminism and founded journals devoted to such topics as "representations of female genitalia in Victorian Britain." According to William H. McNeill, such changes are inevitable in any successful "empire" by dint of its own growing need for labor and its own powers of attraction to migratory peoples abroad.
ISSN:0895-4852
1936-4709
DOI:10.1007/s12129-998-1041-8