Color in the Classroom
How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954
Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about race changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, during World War II. Inspired by scientific racism in Nazi Germany, these activist scholars decided that the best way to fight racial prejudice was to teach what they saw as the truth about race in the institution that had the power to do the most good-American schools. Anthropologists created lesson plans, lectures, courses, and pamphlets des…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-987696-9
- EAN: 9780199876969
- Produktnummer: 14481113
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'633 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 illus.
Über den Autor
Zoë Burkholder is an assistant professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University.
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