ABSTRACT
Chapter 6, “Revealing and Concealing Diversity,” examines the classroom discourse of six World and United States History teachers and the language they used when describing diversity in the Middle East and Africa. Teachers constructed and reinforced associations of otherness with the Middle East and Africa by representing certain communities within either region as monolithic and lacking intragroup diversity. This reduced the complexity of collective identity and inhibited an understanding of these communities as pluralistic and experiencing intragroup diversity. However, teachers also challenged associations of otherness with the Middle East and Africa. This was evident when teachers described communities as heterogeneous thereby challenging perceptions of otherness.
