Eugenics and Education in America

Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory

von Ann Winfield

195 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics – an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic groups, the urban poor, rural «White trash,» the sexually «deviant,» Blacks, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, Latino/as, and anyone who did not fit with the pseudo-scientifically established «superior» Nordic race. Education leaders, complaining of children of «worm-eaten stock,» established an enduring system to organize and sort students according to perceived societal worth. In exposing and addressing eugenics’ place in our educational system, this book provides a groundbreaking addition to, and exceptional correction of, the history of curriculum in America.

• Reihe: Complicated Conversation
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Theorie und Methoden Quellen
• ISBN: 9780820481463
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2007
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York