Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States

by Spring, Joel

• ISBN13: 9780078024368
• ISBN10: 0078024366
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-26
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equalityis a brief history of school polices affecting dominated groups in the United States. In seven concise chapters, the text looks at the educational, legal, and social construction of race and racism, with a focus on educational practices related to deculturalization, segregation, and the civil rights movement.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

1 Deculturalization and the Claim of Racial and Cultural Superiority by Anglo-Americans

Culture and Race as Central Issues in U.S. History and Education

Globalization: The Meaning of “Uncivilized” and “Pagan”

Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Cultural and Religious Superiority

Race, Racism, and Citizenship

The Meaning of Equality

Globalization and Culture: Cultural Genocide, Deculturalization, Assimilation, Cultural Pluralism, Denial of Education, and Hybridization

Deculturalization and Democratic Thought

The Naturalization Act of 1790 and What It Means to Be White

Education and Creation of an Anglo-American Culture

Educational and Cultural Differences

Early Native American Educational Programs

Schooling and the Colonization of the “Five Civilized Tribes”

Conclusion

2 Native Americans: Deculturalization, Schooling,

Globalization and Inequality

Globalization and Indigenous Peoples

Citizenship in the New Republic

Thomas L. McKenney: The Cultural Power of Schooling

The Missionary Educators

Language and Native American Cultures

Indian Removal and Civilization Programs

Native Americans: Reservations and Boarding Schools

The Meriam Report

Conclusion

3 African Americans: Globalization and the African Diaspora

Cultural Transformation and the Forced Migration of Enslaved Africans

Atlantic Creoles

Slavery and Cultural Change in the North

Freedom in Northern States

Educational Segregation

Boston and the Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity

Plantation Society

Learning to Read

Citizenship for African Americans

Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Education

The Great Crusade for Literacy

Resisting Segregation

The Second Crusade

Conclusion

4 Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation

Globalization and Diaspora: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian

Asian Diaspora to the United States

Citizenship

Education: From Coolie to Model Minority and Gook

Educating the Coolie, Deviant, and Yellow Peril

Conclusion

5 Hispanic/Latino Americans: Exclusion and Segregation

What’s in A Name?

Issues Regarding Mexican American Citizenship

Issues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship

Mexican American Educational Issues

Puerto Rican American Educational Issues

Summary List of Americanization Policies in Public Schools in Puerto Rico

Methods of Deculturalization and Americanization

Conclusion

6 The Great Civil Rights Movement and the

New Culture Wars

Globalization: The Great Civil Rights Movement and Wars of Liberation

School Desegregation

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

Native Americans

Indian Education: A National Tragedy

Asian Americans: Educating the “Model Minority”

Asian Americans: Language and the Continued Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity

Hispanic/Latino Americans

Bilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued

Multicultural Education, Immigration, and the Culture Wars

The Next Chapter in the Culture Wars: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

What about Segregation?

Conclusion: Human and Educational Rights

7 Resegregation of American Schools in a “Post-Racial” Society

The Meaning of Equality in No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

A New Meaning for Equality: From Opportunity to Learn Standards to No Child Left Behind

What’s Missing in No Child Left Behind?

What’s Left After No Child Left Behind?

Segregation of Low-Income Students

Income and Racial Segregation of Low Achieving Students

What are the Consequences of Segregation of Low Achieving Students?

Resegregation in a Post-Racial Society

Changing Concepts of Race

Government Use of Racial Categories

Patterns of Adjustment of New Immigrants

Conclusion: The Meaning of Equality

INDEX