Posts tagged ethnic studies

The Truth About the Lies Students Learn Or the Case for Ethnic Studies at Every School, in Every State by Oriel María Siu, PhD

As a settler nation, the United States has necessitated the invention and sustained dissemination of various lies in order to negate, hide, and distort the truth about its past and present. These lies get taught to children as fairy tales at schools -as stories with sweet beginnings and happily-ever-after endings- and these fictions form the backbone of the history and social studies curricula of most K-12 classrooms in the U.S.:

FeaturedLast Real IndiansJune 13, 2023ethnic studies, Last Real Indians, Oriel María Siu

Foundational Fairytales and the Lies They Tell On Books, Children and Truth by Oriel María Siu, PhD

There used to be a time in occupied America when only whites were allowed to write, read, and publish books. In fact, when Europeans started occupying the continent in 1492, one of the first things they did was burn the thousands of existing books Indigenous people had written in an attempt to destroy peoples' existing relationship with books and their contained knowledges.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansAugust 24, 2022Oriel María Siu, Last Real Indians, racism, Native women, history, ethnic studies, columbus, colonization, Colonialism, white privilege