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The Paradox of Race: Lessons from the Smithsonian by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder — October 07, 2011A review of the recently opened RACE exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the most ambitious effort to educate the public about race and racism in a generation. The exhibit provides an opportunity to reflect on how academic scholarship can contribute to important public education initiatives. The author argues that race education should be organized around a central paradox: the fiction of race, the reality of racism. To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
New York University
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JEFFREY AARON SNYDER is a historian of education who writes about the twentieth-century United States. He recently earned the Ph.D. from New York University with a dissertation entitled "Race, Nation and Education: Black History During Jim Crow."
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