A curriculum of repression : a pedagogy of racial history in the United States / Haroon Kharem. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kharem, Haroon.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 208.

Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education ; v. 208

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education--History.

African Americans.

Discrimination in education--United States.

Discrimination in education.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

African Americans--Colonization.

Eugenics--United States--History.

Eugenics.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book examines the pedagogy of White supremacy in the United States, the American Colonization Society, and the eugenics movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both education and the larger society promoted the idea of the sacred mission of Anglo-Christians, who were seen as God's chosen people. Public policy and education were used to teach Whites that Black people were inferior and unsuitable for citizenship. Federal, state, and local governments, as well as religious leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, argued for the removal of all Black people from the United States.

Others used education as a means of discrediting the intelligence of African Americans while, at the same time, miseducating and deculturalizing African Americans to artificially create a homogenous society"--Jacket.

Contents:

Internal colonialism : White supremacy and education

White supremacy's politics of culture and exclusion

The American colonization society

The pedagogy of eugenics

Confronting disparity in American society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201).

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph