Endnotes

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  2. Porter, Michael, The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women (African American Images Press), 79-80.
  3. Ong, Walter J, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. (Routledge: New York, NY),78.
  4. United States Commission on Civil Rights, Characters in Textbooks: A Review of the Literature, (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980), 13.
  5. Waziruddin, Syed Sualeh, "Towards a non-Centric Curriculum," updated (unknown ) <http://eserver.org/courses/summer97/76100g/waziruddin/> (cited 8 Jan. 2003)
  6. Porter, Michael. 35.
  7. United States Commission on Civil Rights, Characters in Textbooks: A Review of the Literature, (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980), 14.
  8. hooks, bell, Black Looks: race and representation (South End Press: Boston, MA), 3.
  9. hooks, bell, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (South End Press: Boston, MA), 80-82.
  10. Langi, Uinise Tua’one. "Tongans in the American Educational System:
    Effects of Miseducation and Racism on Educational Success, Cultural Identity
    and Careers in Academia"     (University of Utah: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, DATE), 13.
  11. Langi, Uinise Tua'one. 4.
  12. Hull, Gloria T et al, All Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies (The Feminist Press: New York, NY), 62.
  13. Murfin, Brian, "African Science in School Curriculum," updated 19 April 1992 <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/African_Science.html> (cited 12 Jan. 2003).
  14. hooks, bell, Black Looks: race and representation (South End Press: Boston, MA), 2-3.
  15. Austen, Jane, Emma. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553212737/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  16. Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553213105/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  17. Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0448060191/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  18. Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553211684/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  19. Shakespeare, William, Romeo and Juliet. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671722859/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  20. Grimm, Brothers. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374468680/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  21. Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192833588/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  22. Porter, Michael, The Conspriracy to Destroy Black Women (African American Images Press), 79-80.
  23. White, Frances E, Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA), 152.
  24. Klein, Gillian, Reading into Racism: Bias in Children's Literature and Learning Materials (Routledge: New York, NY), 44.
  25. Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300087012/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  26. Beecher Stowe, Harriet, Uncle Tom's Cabin <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140390030/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  27. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446310786/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/104-4084450-0626329?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link>
  28. Klein, Gillian. 2
  29. Banks, Ingrid, Hair Matters (new York University Press: New York, NY) 1.
  30. Klein, Gillian. 88.
  31. Harding, Sandra, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY), 200.
  32. Klein, Gillian. 88-90.
  33. Bernstein, Leonard et al, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN SCIENCE Three Centuries of Contributions, with Hands-On Experiments and Activities for 37 Weeks (People's Publishing Group)<http://peoplespublishing.com/SCI008.html>
  34. This information comes from the fact that I was a student in both of these classes.