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Color in the classroom : how American schools taught race, 1900-1954 /
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 Benedic...
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England ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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Table of 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.