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Are Texas textbooks making cops more trigger-happy?

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imageAre textbooks having an impact on the framing of race issues?thefuturistics, CC BY-NC

Perusing a passage on the Civil War in a high school student’s history textbook in Texas might leave you wondering if black Americans were ever enslaved and if there really is any truth to anti-black racism at all.

A natural question is, are these textbooks...

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