Color in the classroom how American schools taught race, 1900-1954

Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about ""race"" changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas,...

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Main Author: Burkholder, Zoe (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2014
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