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Race, Language, and the Passive Voice: Hardship narratives in U.S. Social Studies Textbooks from 1860 to the present
2020
Journal of Social Studies Education Research
While United States historians' inclination to write in affect-inducing ways has waxed and waned throughout the past 150 years, racial biases concerning such writing have persisted through today. Adapting Mark Phillips' (2013) concept of historical distance coupled with a form of linguistic analysis known as stylistics, I examine 50 U.S. history textbooks from 1860 to 2016 in order to analyze which individuals and groups are discussed as experiencing suffering and whether or not these hardship
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