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McGraw Hill #TeachWorldHistory textbook combines ancient India and China into one chapter, while spreading the ancient Mediterranean across two chapters (Greece and Rome).
Noticing this (again, because my district has used an earlier edition of this text) as I prepare for a #tutoring lesson.
Worth noting in these times that white educators have been comfortable with a narrative of the world that is essentially Europe, et al. (ancient Mediterranean was not "Europe," but that is where this narrative is headed). Some would present this narrative as "neutral." Excellent take down of this concept by @inthehands
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111789667078573737
Hachyderm.ioPaul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)In this thread, I’m speaking instead to people who are maybe a degree or two removed from the schools, or maybe in the thick of them, truly wishing to find the good choices here, and honestly tangled up in knots by these tarpit words: “neutral,” “comfortable.”
Neither of those words means exactly what you think it means. Neither means just one thing. Neither is unidimensional. Neither is free of hidden baggage.
If you can sift through all that, it’s not as intractable as it seems.
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