Color in the classroom [electronic resource] : how American schools taught race, 1900-1954 / Zoë Burkholder.

Color in the classroom [electronic resource] : how American schools taught race, 1900-1954 / Zoë Burkholder.

9780199876969 (electronic book)
9780199751723

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]

©2011

English

1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations

HT1506 .B87 2011eb

305.80071

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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