Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality

by Spring, Joel H.

• ISBN13: 9780072322750
• ISBN10: 0072322756
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

Based largely on material from Joel Spring's "The American School 1649-2000, Fifth Edition, "Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality is a concise history of Anglo American racism and school policies affecting dominated groups in the United States. Spring focuses on the educational, legal and social construction of race and racism, and on educational practices related to deculturalization, segregation, and the civil rights movement. He emphasizes issues of power and control in schools and how the dominant Anglo class has stripped away the culture of minority peoples in the US and replaced it with the dominant culture.

Spring gives voice to the often-overlooked perspectives of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, and Native Americans. An understanding of these historical perspectives and how they impact current conditions and policies is critical to teachers' success or failure in today's diverse classrooms. Very brief and affordable, "Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality is an ideal supplement for Introduction/Foun

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Deculturalization and the Claim of Racial and Cultural Superiority by Anglo-Americans	1	(16)
Is Racial Conflict a Basic Part of U.S. History?	2	(1)
The Uniting of Democracy, Education, Racism, and Religious Intolerance	3	(1)
Race, Racism, and Citizenship	3	(1)
Deculturalization	4	(1)
Concepts of Cultural and Racial Superiority	4	(2)
The Naturalization Act of 1790 and What It Means to Be White	6	(1)
Education and Creation of an Anglo-American Culture	7	(1)
Educational and Cultural Differences	8	(3)
Early Native American Educational Programs	11	(1)
Schooling and the Colonization of the ``Five Civilized Tribes''	12	(3)
Conclusion	15	(1)
Notes	15	(2)
Deculturalization and the Schooling of Native Americans	17	(18)
Citizenship in the New Republic	17	(1)
Thomas L. McKenney: The Cultural Power of Schooling	18	(2)
The Missionary Educators	20	(1)
Language and Native American Cultures	21	(2)
Indian Removal and Civilization Programs	23	(3)
Native Americans: Reservations and Boarding Schools	26	(5)
The Meriam Report	31	(1)
Notes	32	(3)
Education and Segregation: African Americans	35	(20)
Citizenship for African Americans	36	(2)
Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Education	38	(1)
Education Before the Civil War	39	(6)
The Great Crusade for Literacy	45	(5)
Resisting Segregation	50	(1)
The Second Crusade	51	(2)
Notes	53	(2)
Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation	55	(13)
Citizenship	56	(6)
Education: From Coolie to Model Minority and Gook	62	(1)
Educating the ``Coolie,'' ``Deviant,'' and ``Yellow Peril''	63	(4)
Notes	67	(1)
Hispanic/Latino Americans: Exclusion and Segregation	68	(26)
What's in A Name?	68	(2)
Issues Regarding Mexican American Citizenship	70	(3)
Issues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship	73	(2)
Mexican American Educational Issues	75	(8)
Puerto Rican American Educational Issues	83	(6)
Conclusion: Methods of Deculturalization and Americanization	89	(2)
Notes	91	(3)
The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars	94	(27)
School Desegregation	95	(2)
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.	97	(3)
Native Americans	100	(2)
Indian Education: A National Tragedy	102	(2)
Asian Americans: Educating the ``Model Minority''	104	(2)
Asian Americans: Language and the Continued Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity	106	(1)
Hispanic/Latino Americans	107	(3)
Bilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued	110	(3)
Multicultural Education, Immigration, and the Culture Wars	113	(4)
Notes	117	(4)
Index	121