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"What About This One with the Mice?"

  • Shane Carter (author)
Chapter of: Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State(pp. 87–92)

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Title"What About This One with the Mice?"
ContributorShane Carter (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0466.1.06
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/redacted-writing-in-the-negative-space-of-the-state/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightShane Carter
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2024-10-27
Long abstractHow are societies from the distant past rendered palatable for modern US classrooms? A few months ago I worked with a fellow educator to create a lesson for high-schoolers about Moche, an ancient Andean society. We were attempting to correct an almost total erasure of Indigenous peoples in his social studies curriculum, but we found ourselves engaged in a very classroom-specific form of redaction. Moche artifacts that graphically depict both sex and violence brought that society into direct juxtaposition with our own and forced us to confront US norms about "appropriateness" in school. This piece is both a recounting of and reflection on that ethically confounding process. It renders transparent an aspect of education that usually happens in the privacy of home offices and teacher workrooms.
Page rangepp. 87–92
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • Moche
  • curriculum development
  • world history
  • Indigenous People
  • huacas
  • Ai Apaec
Contributors

Shane Carter

(author)
program coordinator for Office of Resources for International and Areas Studies at University of California, Berkeley

Shane Carter is a former high school history-social science teacher and currently the program coordinator for Office of Resources for International and Areas Studies (ORIAS) at UC Berkeley. ORIAS offers professional learning programs for educators, focused on helping teachers better understand World History and other international topics across disciplines. Shane is also the author of two podcast series: Points In Between, about the experiences of newcomer students in US schools, and Future Imperfect, about the anticipated effects of climate change in California.