‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can

Jeff Sharlet
GEN
Published in
10 min readSep 21, 2020

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Schoolchildren pledging allegiance in the 1950s. Photo: Lambert/Getty Images

It feels strange, as mourners gather outside the Supreme Court, to be writing of anything but the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the looming prospect that Donald Trump will seal the…

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Jeff Sharlet
GEN
Writer for

Author, THE FAMILY, now a Netflix series, C ST., & THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College.