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Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide

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This original book-length study commenced officially in August of 2013, when Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep received a small research grant from Illinois State University, which helped fund a graduate assistant. Mr. Daniel P. Scott was selected to be the graduate research assistant for a variety of reasons, the primary one being his extensive expertise in the history of World War II and the Korean War.

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  1. Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

    Nicholas D. Hartlep

  2. Austin Independent School District (AISD), Austin, Texas, USA

    Daniel P. Scott

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Hartlep, N.D., Scott, D.P. (2016). Introduction. In: Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-639-2_1

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