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September 10, 2025

Assimilative Rhetorics in 19th Century African American Literacy Manuals

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The literacy manuals aimed to improve reading skills, yet they promoted assimilation into white culture.
Key lessons suggested moral deficits in African Americans contributed to discrimination, complicating educational narratives.
Archival research analyzed three key manuals revealing their dual role in teaching literacy and cultural assimilation.
These texts highlight an ongoing paradox in education: seeking social advancement often requires compromising one's cultural identity.

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Archival research examines how literacy manuals taught reading while promoting assimilation into dominant culture, indicating a complex relationship with identity.

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Amanda Athon (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1e17854b1d3bfb60feb56 https://doi.org/10.59236/rjv15i1pp41-60

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Archival research examines how literacy manuals taught reading while promoting assimilation into dominant culture, indicating a complex relationship with identity.

Assimilative Rhetorics in 19th Century African American Literacy Manuals

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