TLDR: Texas House Bill 2497, better known as the 1836 Project, was a bill created in June 2021 by the Texas House of Representatives and was signed into law by Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas. The flagship project: a 15-page pamphlet designed to tell “the story of Texas” to be distributed at the DMV w/your driver’s license. This is the story whiteness tells to itself about itself. My goal: to interrogate that pernicious relationship between state-sanctioned “patriotic education” projects like this one and white supremacy. It’s a lot.
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