Carpintero

ref. 3736064 — New York: n.p. Published with the approval of Professor Erling M. Hunt 1941. 8vo. 137 pp. Original blue cloth. A Near Fine copy. First edition of Marie Elizabeth Carpenter’s dissertation a systematic study of how African Americans were represented in U.S. history textbooks from 1826 to 1939. Carpenter documented the systemic erasure of Black agency and contributions in educational publishing. She examined the treatment of such central topics as slavery Reconstruction and the struggle for civil rights across more than a century of educational publishing exposing patterns of distortion omission and ideological bias. Carpenter also found that textbooks cast Black Americans as passive figures ignoring their roles in emancipation military service and cultural life. She urged use of broader sources and full integration of Black contributions into the historical narrative. A methodical and early contribution to the historiography of African American education likely informed by the concerns raised in Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis‑Education of the Negro 1933. This edition precedes the Menasha Wisconsin printing issued the same year by George Banta Publishing Company. unknown