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Amma, Could you say a little more, please, about 'how it is taught'? In what you wrote, you didn't quite explain why the racial status of the teacher of History matters. (In fact, you didn't refer to the 'teachers' at all!) I have found, even among the Historians in my university, great resistance to the idea that the racial status of the teacher of History matters. For this reason, as tiresome as it is, we need to spell out the argument in excruciating detail. May I, please, invite you to do that? Nathaniel Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, PhD Research Associate in the Philosophy of 'Race' Department of Philosophy, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT<x-apple-data-detectors://0>, www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy> ___ Member of the Emerging Scholars Forum at the Runnymede Trust: http://www.runnymedetrust.org.gridhosted.co.uk/projects-and-publications/academic-forum.html Member of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers: http://www.apaonline.org/members/group.aspx?id=110427 ___ Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jfigs/figs-events-publication/philosophy-of-race-here-and-now Slaveries old and new: The meaning of freedom http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Slaveries_Old_and_New_The_Meaning_of_Freedom.cfm Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies: Friday Forum on 'Race' http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jfigs/figs-friday-forum/race Why isn't my professor black?: A panel chaired by Professor Michael Arthur, President and Provost of UCL http://uclequalities.wordpress.com/events-list/9070083865/ Europe enslaved Africans in the Caribbean: A wrong to remember and to repair http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/2013-14/if-ucl-memory ___ Undergraduate syllabus: The philosophy of anti-slavery http://www.academia.edu/2377578/The_philosophy_of_anti-slavery Anthology on the Philosophy of Slavery and Emancipation http://www.academia.edu/4775678/Call_for_Papers_Anthology_on_the_Philosophy_of_Slavery_and_Emancipation On 24 Mar 2014, at 00:03, "BASA automatic digest system" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 03:14:24 -0700 From: Amma Poku <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Only three black applicants win places to train as history teachers | Education | The Observer Thanks for sharing this. I know so many young people of African descent who are "turn off" history in school because of what and how it is taught, who later can get "turn on" if and when they learn that history isn't just about European Kings (and the odd Queen) and that their ancestors, as much as anyone elses have made history. I personally hated history at school and dropped it as soon as I could, whilst at the same time searching for information and books by and about people of African descent.