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Article: Afrocentrism in the suburbs. (problem with Prince George's County, Maryland's multicultural curriculum) (The Schools: Four Reports)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 20, 1993
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Washington-area residents fondly refer to outlying Prince George's County, Maryland, as "PG" County. The term has recently assumed an unexpected irony. With the near-adoption of a set of multicultural curricula, students might soon need Parental Guidance in order to unravel the strange education dispensed in the nation's 15th largest school district.
The county is famous for its large black middle-class. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, David J. Dent called it "the closest thing to utopia that black middle-class families could find in America." But like most of sub-urban America, the county has found itself vulnerable to bourgeois trendiness. The board of ...