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The quest for citizenship : African American and native American education in Kansas, 1880-1935 / Kim Cary Warren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warren, Kim Cary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Education--Kansas--History.
- African Americans.
- Indians of North America--Education--Kansas--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Racism in education--Kansas--History.
- Racism in education.
- Segregation in education--Kansas--History.
- Segregation in education.
- Educational change--Kansas--History.
- Educational change.
- Education and state--Kansas--History.
- Education and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the quintessential free state, not only because it was home to sizable populations of Indian groups and former slaves, but also because of its unique history of conflict over freedom during the antebellum period.After the Civil War, white reformers opened segregated schools, ultimately rei
- Contents:
- Origins, ideology, and racial hierarchies. Reformers: "friends of the Indians" and "friends of the Negroes"
- Curriculum: acquiring the habits of citizenship
- Strategies of negotiation. Students: Native American negotiations at Haskell Institute
- Parents: African American integration on the "plateau of uncertainty"
- New leaders in the twentieth century. Teachers: from industrial education to African American race pride
- Identity: Native American biculturalism
- Conclusion. Unintended consequences: the next generation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-355-4
- 979-88-908838-1-0
- 1-4696-0497-3
- 0-8078-9944-5
- OCLC:
- 676696347
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