Erased: True Stories about Race and Racism in America That You Probably Weren't Taught in School

Description:

For fans of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a bold new popular history exposing the hidden truths about race long omitted from our school textbooks

Following in the tradition of James Loewen's bestselling Lies My Teacher Told Me, Erased peels back the layers of sanitized and hidden histories to reveal the shocking, untold stories of race and racism in the United States--stories deliberately left out of most textbooks. From the enslaved people who built and labored in the White House, to the near extinction of bison as the federal government sought to starve Native peoples into submission, to the nation's role in the Nazis' atrocities of the twentieth century, Erased delivers thirty-eight eye-opening chapters that expose what is often deliberately erased from U.S. history lessons.

Through careful research and vivid storytelling, sociologists Nikki Khanna and Kathleen Odell Korgen bring readers into moments rarely included in traditional accounts of U.S. history, bridging the gap between what we were taught and what we should know about our past.

For concerned citizens, students, and educators, Erased will inform, inspire, and leave readers ready to engage in meaningful conversations about America's past and its impact on today.

Brief description:

Nikki Khanna is a professor of sociology at the University of Vermont and author of Biracial in America, Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism, and Race Relations in America. Her research on race, colorism, and multiracial identity has reached wide public audiences through CNN, Time, NBC, BBC, NPR, and other major media outlets. She lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Review Quotes:

Praise for Erased:
"Sociologists Khanna and Korgen survey disparate facets of American racism in this expansive account. . . . A useful educational tool for teachers committed to the truth."--Publishers Weekly

"Our classrooms have become a battleground, where powerful interests have sought to suppress how and what our children learn about themselves and about America's fraught history of race and inequality. For their sake, we have no choice but to join the fight, and this outstanding book will be one of our best weapons."--Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times-bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop and Long Time Coming

"Erased is urgent, necessary, and devastatingly clear. At a moment when the teaching of history is again under attack, this book offers readers what sanitized textbooks cannot, the truth about how race has been made, enforced, and profited from in the United States. It is a powerful corrective and an indispensable resource for students, teachers, and anyone who has ever wondered what else they were not taught."--Noliwe Rooks, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor and chair of Africana Studies at Brown University and author of Integrated and Cutting School

"This book will revolutionize your view of the American story, shedding shocking new light on the deep historical roots of today's social and democratic crises. It is required reading not only for every college student but for all Americans."--Charles Derber, professor of sociology at Boston College and author of The Wilding of America, Fighting Oligarchy, and Wired for Authoritarianism.

"As educators struggle against campaigns to once more whitewash and sanitize history, Erased is a reminder to know the truth, to tell the truth, and to teach the truth."--Carla Shalaby, author of Troublemakers

"Building on the work of historians like Howard Zinn and James Loewen, Erased highlights forgotten chapters in the history of American racism. . . . While some stories are familiar, like the murder of Emmett Till, others are not so widely known, and every reader will discover something new and troubling about the American enforcement of racial inequality."--Booklist