Racial Representations
The concepts of conventional history and critical history help us identify race representations of African Americans and Native Americans through the eyes of the dominant culture. ... Conventional history is used to hide the fact that racial representations exist and are what have shaped the U. ... This idea of the “racial market ideology” denotes that the only way African Americans would get social equality, is they would have to get in the “market place” and work for it. ... Conventional history will always hide the truth about racial representations that formed the U.