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3 things schools should teach about America's history of white supremacy

  • Written by Noelle Hurd, Scully Family Discovery Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Virginia
A Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D.C., in 1926.Everett Historical from www.shutterstock.com

When it comes to how deeply embedded racism is in American society, blacks and whites have sharply different views.

For instance, 70 percent of whites believe that individual discrimination is a bigger problem than discrimination built into the...

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