Florida reviewers of AP African American Studies sought opposing viewpoints of slavery – Daily Press dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alexander Weheliye, African American studies professor at Brown University, said the evaluators’ comments on the units about slavery were a “complete distortion” and “whitewashing” of what happened historically.
A lesson in the AP course focused on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people and the materials enslaved laborers produced. The state objected to the content.