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Teaching national identity and alterity: Nineteenth century American primary school geography textbooks
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2018-03-01
Author
Gürsel, Bahar
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The swift and profound transformations in technology and industry that the United States began to experience in the late 1800s manifested themselves in school textbooks, which presented different patterns of race, ethnicity, and otherness. They also displayed concepts like national identity, exceptionalism, and the superiority of Euro-American civilization. This article aims to demonstrate, via an analysis of two textbooks, how world geography was taught to children in primary schools in nineteenth century America. It shows that the development of American identity coincided with the emergence of the realm of the “other,” that is, with the intensification of racial attitudes and prejudices, some of which were to persist well into the twentieth century.
Subject Keywords
Geography textbooks
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National identity
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Nineteenth century
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Otherization
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Racial stereotypes
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The United States
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35074
Journal
Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2018.100107
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Department of History, Article
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B. Gürsel, “Teaching national identity and alterity: Nineteenth century American primary school geography textbooks,”
Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
, vol. 10, pp. 106–126, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35074.