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In Rancho Bernardo Calif. a
high schoo( history teacher
asks his African-American father
tp speak to students about the
trials of growing up in segrega-
tionist Alabama.
In Lakeside Calif. a veteran
rniddle school instructor talks
about how blacks fought in the
American Revolution.
It's not happening overnight
but a growing number of
Schools countrywide appear to
be paying more than lip service
ihese days to African-American
iistory.
While some campuses lag
behind others - especially pre-
dominantly white schools - arc
trying to weave more black his-
tory into the workaday curricu-
' lum educators say.
!rj "It has to be infused in what
i you do every day in what you
plan in what you teach" says
jMark Wolfe a humanities spe-
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infused
in what
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Mark Wolfe
Educators say that teaching all
children about the contributions
Nof many cultures provides a
jroader understanding of histo
ry and helps engender greater
ing in class about black' contri-
buttons makes him happy.
"When you get older you'll
know what's important and can
explain it to your kids" Mariano
said.
Parents seem to like it too. "I
think it makes a tremendous
amount of difference" said
Brcnda Banks-Abegaz the PTA
president at Fulton.
Banks-Abcgaz and others said
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to see themselves reflected in
what they learn and to discover
that their past includes .more
than slaves and civil-rights lead-
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also requiring schools to broad-
en curriculum to reflect Calif-
ornia's cultural diversity.
Some campuses however re-
main in a rut of portraying
blacks largely as slaves or eman-
cipators when history also is
fdled with stories of African-
American inventors explorers
and scientists Shahecd said.
He said some instructors fear
that teaching more about blacks
means Undercutting the contri-
butions of other cultures partic-
ularly whites.
"It isn't that they don't vant to
learn these things; they just don't
want to be bashed" he said.
To allay such concerns Sha-
heed said he avoids potentially
loaded terms like Afrocentrism
when speaking with teachers.
Shahecd instead tries to gently
show how blades contributed to
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For others the impetus to
incorporate more African-American
history dawned slowly.
"At first it was intimidating"
said Sandy Terrell who teaches
racial understanding in an age th;rd grade at Fulton Elemcn-
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Coleman
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mixing of cultures because you
can't moit cultures together or they
wouldn't be cultures anymore"
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we bring the best of all into one
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