most of the people at my school want a white history month

[SamV]

/facepalm

Please kill me >_<

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

did someone actually conduct this survey?!

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

oh you live in indiana that explains it

[Sir Comradical]

Lol, mainstream history is white history.

[brigadista]

obviously they are getting a bad education:)

[Political_Chucky]

I want a red history month

[Tablo]

Red history month sounds like fun.

[Fulanito de Tal]

This is actually a step forward! If we contained white history to only one month, then maybe we could learn something interesting the rest of the year! We could have a world history rest of the year.

[Tablo]

This is actually a step forward! If we contained white history to only one month, then maybe we could learn something interesting the rest of the year! We could have a world history rest of the year.
Sooooo exciting! :lol:

[Angry Young Man]

Are you saying we couldn't hijack it and turn it into Anti-Imperialism month or whatever? Because Black History Month is about blacks in the context of race relations. If there's a month where the focus is on the oppressor...

Or is it not about whites in the context of race relations?

[Tablo]

Anti-Imperialism month sounds like the greatest thing ever. I want it.

[Angry Young Man]

Well, either WHM would be a focus on whites through the ages and the multiple races that they've oppressed, which not even the most bonkers Ukipper can feel particular pride for; or it would focus on whites through the ages without the various races they've oppressed, which would just be... well, History Month

[Robocommie]

I had a professor, a person of color, who once made the argument that he felt that dividing black history and Latino history like that, by giving it it's own month, encouraged this notion that the history of minorities is somehow separable from the history of mainstream culture. While it's of course intended to correct the imbalance of areas of history which are usually ignored and overlooked, it has the unintended side effect of sidelining it and "othering" it even more.

He made an interesting point.

[Robocommie]

Well, either WHM would be a focus on whites through the ages and the multiple races that they've oppressed, which not even the most bonkers Ukipper can feel particular pride for; or it would focus on whites through the ages without the various races they've oppressed, which would just be... well, History Month

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gfnke34LQw&feature=related

[¿Que?]

Or maybe like a history history month. Get all meta with it.

[synthesis]

Or maybe like a history history month. Get all meta with it.

You mean a historiography month? (This is where four years has gotten me...)

[¿Que?]

You mean a historiography month? (This is where four years has gotten me...)
Well, not really. Historiographies are nothing more than an overview of the literature on a certain subject. The difference between history and historiography is the absence in the latter of primary sources. I meant like a meta-history. A history of who wrote history, what history was written about, what led to certain historical theories and ideas, etc.

[¿Que?]

Well, actually it appears synthesis you are correct. But then, so am I. There's two definitions of historiography...


Historiography is the study of the history and methodology of the discipline of history (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History).
The term historiography also denotes a body of historical work on a specialized topic. Scholars discuss historiography topically – such as the “historiography of Catholicism (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Catholicism),” the “historiography of early Islam (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Historiography_of_early_Islam),” or the “historiography of China (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chinese_historiography)" – as well as specific approaches and genres (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Genre), such as political history (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Political_history) and social history (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Social_history). Beginning in the nineteenth century, at the ascent of academic history (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Academic_history), a corpus of historiography literature developed.

wikipedia

[Rusty Shackleford]

start a revolutionary working class history month.

[Tablo]

We should have a poll on what new month to create.

[Jalapeno Enema]

We should have a poll on what new month to create.

Smarch

[Rusty Shackleford]

Franuary. for all the Frans in the world.

[Angry Young Man]

Or just Fran. Between June and July. Continue the thread of girl's names

[Rusty Shackleford]

Spocktober.

Remember December. (Amnesia Awareness Month)

[Vanguard1917]

How about just teaching human history throughout the whole year? 'Black history month' is a philistine concept based on the divisive belief that 'black people's history' is somehow separable from the history of humanity in general. According such logic, 'white history' would indeed make sense.

[Fulanito de Tal]

remember december. (amnesia awareness month)

lmao!

[ZeroNowhere]

Why not have a history month for us brown people instead? It's a perfect middle path between black and white history months, and should appease both parties.

[Tablo]

Why not have a history month for us brown people instead? It's a perfect middle path between black and white history months, and should appease both parties.
I don't think that's the way it works...

[ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo]

Why not a White Trash History Month? :lol:

[SamV]

lul, well I am stuck in one of the most conservative counties in the usa, not going to say which one but holy balls I don't even remember what a black person looks like anymore.

and no there was no survey, its just generally well known to be the viewpoint around here.

[synthesis]

Well, actually it appears synthesis you are correct. But then, so am I. There's two definitions of historiography..

Historiography was always explained to me as "the history of the history." It would be pretty sad if I had a Bachelor's in this shit and didn't know what historiography was. It's pretty sad anyways, so...

[Morgenstern]

Maybe we can grow up and stop dedicating certain months to certain histories? Does it do anything other than make some people pissed off?

[Fulanito de Tal]

Maybe we can grow up and stop dedicating certain months to certain histories? Does it do anything other than make some people pissed off?

I think affirmative action had that problem too.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

How about history teachers begin teaching history from all angles and view points rather than dedicating a month or two to a specific group of people that they otherwise ignore? :confused:

[Pretty Flaco]

There should be a month dedicated to my history.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

traditionally, the study of history in the west is the narrative of the development of white european society, with all other cultures occupying a merely marginal role. black history month is good in that it seeks to show black history from a black perspective but of course it doesnt fundamentally change the way history is studied.

[Rafiq]

Why do we need months dedicated to a race? They should Change Black History month to something like "Anti-Racist Rememberence month" or something.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

because poor understanding of black history is a major contributing factor to racism