num_pages: 195
description: 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.
language: English
title: Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers