An AI-driven analysis of widely used textbooks found that only 1% of sentences contained any mention of Asians or Asian Americans – and most of the references were related to war and foreign affairs rather than contributions to society.
Outside of college level courses history classes in the U.S. talk about the founding fathers, the civil war, WW2, and then we’re magically to the present.
It’s somehow made worse that these are history textbooks.
Outside of college level courses history classes in the U.S. talk about the founding fathers, the civil war, WW2, and then we’re magically to the present.