"Brown"-ing the American Textbook: History, Psychology, and the Origins of Modern Multiculturalism

Autor/in	Zimmerman, Jonathan
Titel	"Brown"-ing the American Textbook: History, Psychology, and the Origins of Modern Multiculturalism
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 44 (2004) 1, S.46-69 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
DOI	10.1111/j.1748-5959.2004.tb00145.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational History; Textbooks; Cultural Pluralism; African Americans; Court Litigation; Psychology; Racial Bias; Criticism; Racial Segregation; Whites; Racial Relations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Kulturpluralismus; Afroamerikaner; Rechtsstreit; Psychologie; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Kritik; Rassentrennung; White; Weißer
Abstract	This article discusses the struggles over school textbooks to probe America's postwar discourse about race, highlighting the shift towards psychological modes of explanation and remedy. The first section examines debates in the North during the 1940s and early 1950s when a new cohort of African-American freedom fighters--the so-called "World War II Generation"--faced off against liberal white educators. The focus of the article then shifts to the south where segregationists' defense of all-white texts, and their resistance to so-called "integrated" ones, seemed to confirm the critical role of racist texts in fostering racist attitudes. The final section explains how African-Americans refocused the entire textbook debate upon their attitudes, echoing the larger theme of Brown v. Board of Education. (Contains 56 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10