Quote by James W. Loewen Download Open image ““repression of white ethnic groups; again, most textbooks blame the people,”” — James W. Loewen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly,… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“White people, apparently, were not responsible for their own racist mentalities.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.” — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share
“The only thing wrong with White people is when they embrace racist ideas and policies and then deny their ideas and policies are racist.… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity.… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
![“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as aliens, and were rarely allowed to live within white society except on its periphery," according to [Gary] Nash. Native Americans who amassed…” quote by James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/31e/james-w-loewen-12569_acculturated_no-matter-how-thoroughly-native-american_489063.jpg)
