Deculturalization and the struggle for equality:a brief history of the education of dominated cultures in the United States

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Spring Joel H.
Published: McGraw-Hill,
Publisher Address: Boston
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 3rd ed.
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Carrier Form: xii, 125 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0072322756 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: G759
CLC: G759.712-09
Call Number: G759.712-09/S769/3rd.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Deculturalization and the claim of racial and cultural superiority by Anglo-Americans. Is racial conflict a basic part of U.S. history? ; The uniting of democracy, education, racism, and religious intolerance ; Race, racism, and citizenship ; Deculturalization ; Concepts of cultural and racial superiority ; The Naturalization Act of 1790 and what it means to be white ; Education and creation of an Anglo-American culture ; Educational and cultural differences ; Early Native American education programs ; Schooling and the colonization of the "five civilized tribes" --Deculturalization and the schooling of Native Americans. Citizenship and the new republic ; Thomas L. McKenney: the cultural power of schooling ; The missionary educators ; Language and Native American cultures ; Indian removal and civilization programs ; Native Americans: reservations and boarding schools ; The Meriam Report -- Education and segregation: African Americans. Citizenship for African Americans ; Fourteenth Amendment: citizenship and education ; Education before the Civil War ; The great crusade for literacy ; Resisting segregation ; The second crusade -- Asian Americans: exclusion and segregation. Citizenship ; Education: from Coolie to model minority and Gook ; Educating the "coolie," "deviant," and "yellow peril" -- Hispanic/Latino Americans: exclusion and segregation. What's in a name ; Issues regarding Mexican American citizenship ; Issues regarding Puerto Rican citizenship ; Mexican American educational issues ; Puerto Rican American educational issues ; Conclusion: methods of deculturalization and Americanization -- The great civil rights movement and the new culture wars. School desegregation ; Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Native Americans ; Indian education: a national tragedy ; Asian Americans: educating the 'model minority' ; Asian Americans: language and the continued struggle for equal educational opportunity ; Hispanic/Latino Americans ; Bilingual education: the culture wars continued ; Multicultural education, immigration, and the culture wars.