Teaching Our Diverse History: African American Examples
Students can start by looking at U.S. history using standard textbooks which tend to emphasize dominator relations while at the same time failing to present the full horror of the dehumanization of blacks, Native Americans, and later also Chinese and other Asian immigrants. They can then be given other resources that emphasize partnership elements and/or provide the missing perspective of groups that have been dominated.
Teaching Our Diverse Stories
Works by American women from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Gloria Naylor, Sandra Cisneros, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Amy Tan, give students who share their backgrounds a way to find themselves in the stories and they give students who don't share their backgrounds an understanding of both cultural diversity and the underlying humanity we all share.
Looking at "Humanities" from a Partnership Perspective
Humanities taught from a partnership perspective is more multicultural, gender-balanced, and focused on issues of human rights and responsibilities.
