Writing American subjects
Subtitle: race, composition, and the daily themes assignment for English 12 at Harvard, 1886-87
By: by Amy A. Zenger
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Curricula; Racism; Ethnocentrism; English language; Rhetoric; Study and teaching (Higher); Written communication; Composition (Language arts); Harvard University
Description: "The study argues that the movement to establish English as a subject in schools and universities was motivated by a desire to privilege values thought to be associated with the Anglo Saxon people and their descendants.... Secondly, the study argues that the education goal of 'cultivation' became racialized in the American context.... Finally, the study argues that racialized concepts of liberty that understood the love of freedom as a national characteristic of the English, or considered conditions of freedom to apply only to some portions of society influenced the design of the elective curriculum, and fostered a new, more independent model of authority in the classroom."--P. x.
Notes: "Primary data for the study is drawn from materials related to the daily theme assignment designed by Barrett Wendell for his English 12 course at Harvard in 1886-87."--P. ix.

Thesis (Ph.D. in English)--University of New Hampshire, 2004.

Bibliography: pp. 179-186.