Education for Empire : American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship / Clif Stratton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stratton, Clif, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in education--United States--History.

Racism in education.

Racism in education--United States--Case studies.

Education and state--United States--History.

Education and state.

United States--Territorial expansion--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Education for Empire brings together topics in American history often treated separately: schools, race, immigration, and empire building. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American imperial ambitions abroad expanded as the country's public school system grew. How did this imperialism affect public education? School officials, teachers, and textbook authors used public education to place children, both native and foreign-born, on multiple uneven paths to citizenship. Using case studies from around the country, Clif Stratton deftly shows that public schooling and colonialism were intimately intertwined. This book reveals how students-from Asians in the U.S. West and Hawai'i to blacks in the South, Mexicans in the Southwest, and Puerto Ricans in the Caribbean and New York City-grappled with the expectations of citizenship imposed by nationalist professionals at the helm of curriculum and policy. Students of American history, American studies, and the history of education will find Education for Empire an eminently valuable book.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Good Citizens

1. Geography, History, and Citizenship

2. Visions of White California

3. Hawaiian Cosmopolitans and the American Pacific

4. Black Atlanta's Education through Labor

5. Becoming White New Yorkers

6. Colonial Citizens, Deportable Citizens

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520961050

0520961056

OCLC:

933525185