Analysis Of The Miseducation Of The Negro By Carter Godwin Woodson

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The book The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson, shows the reader the weakness of European culture that fail to include African American history and culture within schools and society. The system misinforms African American students, failing to prepare them for success and to give them an adequate sense of who they are within the system that they must live in . In the book Woodson states “the so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples”. Woodson statement mean the education system benefits other race expect African American, based on that it benefits mainly whites because they were slave owner and view their race as superior. Woodson provides many strong solutions to the problems which he identifies in the book. Woodson challenges the meaning of the educated Negro. He claims that the educated Negro often remove himself from the black community and …show more content…

History books stressed their good fortune at having been exposed, through slavery, to the higher civilization, which is the white men. In the reading White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, the author states “whites are taught to think their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow them to more like us”. This statement proves the education system teach all race to learn and replica white culture and history. African American accomplishments, contributions, and achievement are not presence within history books, and it is not taught to African American

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