Color in the classroom [electronic resource] : how American schools taught race, 1900-1954 / Zoë Burkholder.
Burkholder, Zoë.
2011
HT1506 .B87 2011eb
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Title Color in the classroom [electronic resource] : how American schools taught race, 1900-1954 / Zoë Burkholder.
Author Burkholder, Zoë.
ISBN 9780199876969 (electronic book)
9780199751723
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 252 p.) : ill.
Call Number HT1506 .B87 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.80071
Summary 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.
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Introduction : the social construction of race in American schools
Race as nation, 1900-1938
Franz Boas : reforming "race" in American schools
Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead : teaching teachers race and culture
Race as color, 1939-1945
Race as culture, 1946-1954
Conclusion Race and Educational Equality after Brown v. Board of Education.

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