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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781759003321

Autore

Burkholder Zoë

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-19-991206-8

1-283-29705-1

9786613297051

0-19-987696-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

305.80071

Soggetti

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

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

United States Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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