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The key reading for moving students beyond surface thinking (comprehension -> reaction -> judgment or denial) to understanding that the perspectives we bring to an exploration of history are part of the history that we discover is
• a paper by Jane Tompkins entitled "'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History."

References:

Tompkins, Jane, 1986. “‘Indians’: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History.” From Critical Inquiry, Volume 13, No. 1 (Autumn 1986). Reprinted in Henry Louis Gates, ed., Race, Writing, and Difference (1986), pp. 101-119. Chicago: The University of Chicago.

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