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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkholder, Zoë.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--Study and teaching--United States--History--20th century.

Race.

Racism--Study and teaching--United States--History--20th century.

Racism.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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. Anthropologists crea

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-991206-8

1-283-29705-1

9786613297051

0-19-987696-7

OCLC:

756484812