Still Ignoring the Past: Assessing and Addressing Open Textbook Coverage of U.S. Slavery and Colonialism

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Andrew C. Gray Indigo Koslicki Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USAAndrew C. Gray is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and affiliate faculty of Women’s, Gender, and African American Studies at Ball State University. His research interests primarily involve the study of race/ethnicity and racism with regards to violence, victimization, and social control. This includes examining racial differences in the use of fatal force by police, the history and legacy of lynching, and structural inequalities as they pertain to crime trends as well as studies of intimate partner violence/homicide.Indigo Koslicki is an associate professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ball State University. Her research interests include United States police militarization, police accountability technology, and police-public interactions. Her recent work includes critical examinations of protest policing, compiling a comprehensive fatal force database, and assessing police responses to child abuse.

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