Teaching Black History After Obama

This article reflects on the teaching of black history after the Obama presidency and at the dawn of the Trump era. It is both a reflection on the state of the field, and a primer on how to integrate the past few decades of scholarship in black history broadly across the standard K-12 curriculum. It demonstrates the importance of theorizing black history as American history rather than just including content and offers specific methods that can shift the narrative in this direction even in the confines of the traditional telling of the American past.