ABSTRACT
Differences in white and black students’ interpretive frameworks originated in family/community discourses and experiences about race and rights, historically and today. The differences were manifested in parents’ interpretations of U.S. history, the stories about historical and contemporary experiences related to race and rights which family members discussed at home, as well as in the movies, documentaries and other media children and/or their parents watched or listened to. The differences also were represented in single-race and mixed raced school-wide and community settings, where black and white adolescents presented their interpretations of U.S. history and contemporary society, as well as their views about the purposes and perspectives of history taught in the schools.
