tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post8879810130596625891..comments2024-03-27T14:08:51.191-05:00Comments on American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL): Slapin: Open Letter to Beth KanellDebbie Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972409006633565859noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-87995306786042480152017-07-29T18:34:19.985-05:002017-07-29T18:34:19.985-05:00Gillian, I think Kanell did in fact read that open...Gillian, I think Kanell did in fact read that open letter. Especially now that Question 11 mentions the 1930s and Jews. Too bad Kanell didn't change the other bad parts of her book. Stupid "good intentions" European and McEuropean [white Usonian] writers.Sam Jonsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06037969317578064759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-46854029858855251922009-04-04T01:02:00.000-05:002009-04-04T01:02:00.000-05:00"Is it different if the choices are forced on them..."Is it different if the choices are forced on them?"<BR/><BR/>Think about it, Discussion-Question-Writer. Think really, really hard about it. Maybe look up "choice" and "forced".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-64056334239500967232009-01-25T19:57:00.000-06:002009-01-25T19:57:00.000-06:00You know, I can't even imgine what she was thinkin...You know, I can't even imgine what she was thinking in Question 11. Because yes - it really does compare the steralization of people to the steralization of animals. As though these things are in any way comparable.<BR/><BR/>I don't care if she changed it. What was she thinking in the first place?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-48732851542847388922008-12-18T11:56:00.000-06:002008-12-18T11:56:00.000-06:00Good letter.It looks like she might have gone and ...Good letter.<BR/><BR/>It looks like she might have gone and changed the last two questions, re-wording them and taking out the animal comparisons. If <A HREF="http://www.bethkanell.com/discussion.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> is the page you had taken them from.Gillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16147446148463638683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-991820620590660092008-12-17T18:46:00.000-06:002008-12-17T18:46:00.000-06:00Yes, perhaps not the best discussion questions, bu...Yes, perhaps not the best discussion questions, but I would imagine that the second question would be leading children to obviously conclude that animal sterilization is different to that forcibly performed on humans. As a teacher, I would be hoping this could lead to an interrogation of the kind of ideology that positioned native peoples as at the bottom of an imagined hierarchy of "races", or as occupying some sort of "mid-way" between animals and white humans. This kind of thinking propagated such eugenics programs, but perhaps the presentation of the questions loses the potential to examine the thinking behind these racist exercises and instead could be seen as promoting them still. The first question is not as obviously connected to such a valuable opportunity to deconstruct racist thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com