"The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation
of the crimes of the strong." Considered Woodson's seminal work, this
text explores his thesis that African Americans were being culturally
indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. He asserts that
this conditioning caused African-Americans to become dependent and to
seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they were a
part. Woodson skillfully exposes the weaknesses of Euro-centric based
curriculums that failed to include African American history and culture.