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

by Spring, Joel

• ISBN13: 9780073378732
• ISBN10: 0073378739
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This text is a concise history of Anglo American racism and school policies affecting dominated groups in the United States. It 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. Spring emphasizes issues of power and control in schools and shows how the dominant Anglo class has stripped away the culture of minority peoples in the U.S. and replaced it with the dominant culture. In the process, he 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 Equalityis an ideal supplement for Introduction/Foundations of Education, Multicultural Education, or any course that seeks to expand student notions of what U.S. education has been and can be.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. v
Preface	p. ix
Deculturalization and the Claim of Racial and Cultural Superiority by Anglo-Americans	p. 1
Culture and Race as Central Issues in U.S. History and Education	p. 2
Globalization: The Meaning of "Uncivilized" and "Pagan"	p. 2
Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Cultural and Religious Superiority	p. 4
Race, Racism, and Citizenship	p. 6
Globalization and Culture: Cultural Genocide, Deculturalization, Assimilation, Cultural Pluralism, Denial of Education, and Hybridization	p. 7
Educational Methods for Global Cultural Encounters	p. 8
Deculturalization and Democratic Thought	p. 9
The Naturalization Act of 1790 and What It Means to Be White	p. 9
Education and Creation of an Anglo-American Culture	p. 10
Educational and Cultural Differences	p. 11
Early Native American Educational Programs	p. 14
Schooling and the Colonization of the "Five Civilized Tribes"	p. 15
Conclusion	p. 18
Native Americans: Deculturalization, Schooling, and Globalization	p. 21
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples	p. 21
Citizenship in the New Republic	p. 22
Thomas L. McKenney: The Cultural Power of Schooling	p. 23
The Missionary Educators	p. 25
Language and Native American Cultures	p. 26
Indian Removal and Civilization Programs	p. 28
Native Americans: Reservations and Boarding Schools	p. 31
The Meriam Report	p. 36
Conclusion	p. 37
African Americans: Deculturalization, Transformation, and Segregation	p. 41
Globalization and the African Diaspora	p. 41
Cultural Transformation and the Forced Migration of Enslaved Africans	p. 43
Atlantic Creoles	p. 44
Slavery and Cultural Change in the North	p. 45
Freedom in Northern States	p. 46
Educational Segregation	p. 47
Boston and the Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity	p. 48
Plantation Society	p. 51
Learning to Read	p. 53
Citizenship for African Americans	p. 54
Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Education	p. 56
The Great Crusade for Literacy	p. 57
Resisting Segregation	p. 62
The Second Crusade	p. 63
Conclusion	p. 65
Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation	p. 68
Globalization and Diaspora: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian	p. 68
Asian Diaspora to the United States	p. 69
Citizenship	p. 71
Education: From Coolie to Model Minority and Gook	p. 76
Educating the Coolie, Deviant, and Yellow Peril	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 81
Hispanic/Latino Americans: Exclusion and Segregation	p. 84
What's in a Name?	p. 84
Issues Regarding Mexican American Citizenship	p. 86
Issues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship	p. 89
Mexican American Educational Issues	p. 91
Puerto Rican American Educational Issues	p. 100
Summary List of Americanization Policies in Public Schools in Puerto Rico	p. 101
Methods of Deculturalization and Americanization	p. 106
Methods of Deculturization	p. 106
Conclusion	p. 108
The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars	p. 111
Globalization: The Great Civil Rights Movement and Wars of Liberation	p. 112
School Desegregation	p. 113
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.	p. 115
Native Americans	p. 118
Indian Education: A National Tragedy	p. 119
Asian Americans: Educating the "Model Minority"	p. 121
Asian Americans: Language and the Continued Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity	p. 124
Hispanic/Latino Americans	p. 126
Bilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued	p. 128
Multicultural Education, Immigration, and the Culture Wars	p. 131
The Next Chapter in the Culture Wars: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001	p. 135
Conclusion: Human and Educational Rights	p. 136
Twenty-First Century: Post-Racial Society?	p. 141
Changing Concepts of Race	p. 142
Government Use of Racial Categories	p. 144
Persistence of Inequality	p. 149
Historical Legacy	p. 152
Patterns of Adjustment of New Immigrants	p. 154
Conclusion: Is Twenty-First-Century United States a Post-Racial Society?	p. 156
Index	p. 158
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