{"id":31425,"date":"2018-08-21T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=31425"},"modified":"2019-04-25T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:39:52","slug":"white-rage-black-lives-matter-how-one-professor-teaches-u-s-history-by-stone-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/08\/21\/white-rage-black-lives-matter-how-one-professor-teaches-u-s-history-by-stone-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018White Rage,\u2019 Black Lives Matter: How One Professor Teaches U.S. History, by Stone Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A basic U.S. history course at Clemson University focused on the post-Civil War era to modern times teaches the subject of America\u2019s past largely from a far-left perspective, including subjects such as \u201cWhite Rage\u201d and Black Lives Matter, according to the required readings for the course.<\/p>\n<p>History 1020, or History of the U.S., focuses on the \u201cpolitical, economic and social development of the American people from the end of Reconstruction to the present,\u201d according to its online description.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30674\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/project21\/staff\/stone-washington\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30674\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-30674 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/StoneWashington-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stone Washington\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/StoneWashington-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/StoneWashington.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stone Washington<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This fall, one professor teaching the class is Assistant Professor Maribel Morey, whose required readings include the books \u201cWhite Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide,\u201d \u201cHow Race is Made in America,\u201d \u201cMaking of Black Lives Matter,\u201d \u201cEquality on Trial: Gender and Rights,\u201d and \u201cLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each of the books portray an apparent liberal bias against various political issues. Professor Morey adds more details about the course on her personal website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe course will begin with an overview of key moments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States history. After the first three weeks, the class will then focus on bringing historical context to today\u2019s most pressing national conversations, from #SaveDACA and the #BlackLivesMatter movement to the #AltRight, #TimesUp, #MeToo, and #NeverAgain movements. In doing so, the course aims both to empower students with knowledge of critical moments in the U.S. past and to inspire them to see the present-day value of historical analysis,\u201d the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maribelmorey.com\/syllabi\/\" rel=\"noopener\">states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the required readings, \u201cWhite Rage,\u201d penned by Emory University historian Carol Anderson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/27917\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argues<\/a> white rage is the force behind the many struggles faced by the black community today; \u201cevery time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains,\u201d the book\u2019s online description states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea\u201d focuses on law enforcement controversies and suggests that \u201cto upset dominant practices of abuse, oppression and disregard, we must reach instead for radical sensibility,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Making-Black-Lives-Matter-History\/dp\/0190601345\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to its online description.<\/p>\n<p>And the book \u201cHow Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts\u201d pays special attention to Latino Americans and introduces the concept of \u201cracial scripts, which highlights the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and space and thereby affect one another,\u201d its online description <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Race-Made-America-Immigration\/dp\/0520280083\" rel=\"noopener\">states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the apparent one-sided nature of her required readings, especially for a basic history course that is billed as a nonpartisan review of U.S. history and not one advertised to students as being from a critical studies perspective, Morey implied students can drop the course if they are concerned with her syllabus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the first day, I will share the course syllabus which explains in greater detail for students the course goals and student learning objectives as well as the course methodology and requirements,\u201d she told <em>The College Fix<\/em> via email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn brief, the course aims both to empower students with knowledge of critical moments in the United States past and to inspire them to see the present-date value of historical analysis,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Project 21 member <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/project21\/staff\/stone-washington\/\">Stone Washington<\/a> is a senior at Clemson University majoring in history and minoring in political science. This piece originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/white-rage-black-lives-matter-how-one-professor-teaches-u-s-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The College Fix<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"style1\"><span class=\"style2 style1 style1 style1\">New Visions Commentaries reflect the views of their author, and not necessarily those of <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/P21Index.html\">Project 21<\/a>, other Project 21 members, or the National Center for Public Policy Research, its board or staff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A basic U.S. history course at Clemson University focused on the post-Civil War era to modern times teaches the subject of America\u2019s past largely from a far-left perspective, including subjects such as \u201cWhite Rage\u201d and Black Lives Matter, according to the required readings for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,60],"tags":[84],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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