"Rethinking Black History"
Journal article
By: Orlando Patterson
Date: 1971
Source: Patterson, Orlando. "Rethinking Black History." Harvard Educational Review 41, no. 3, 1971, 299–304.
About the Author: Orlando Patterson (1940–) is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States in 1970. He has made important scholarly contributions to the study of slavery and ethnicity. Patterson also wrote three novels and several short stories.
Introduction
Beginning in the 1950s, there was an interest for black history to be written and included in the curriculum. The Civil Rights era in the 1960s increased the quest for knowledge of the past—people needed to define themselves and their historical struggles. Students demanded courses in black history. Early attempts to comply with this request followed the "great...
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