Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory
Series: Complicated Conversation: a Book Series of Curriculum Studies
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: March 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780820481463
Subjects: Students & Student Life; History; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education; Education / Teaching; Discrimination in education; Eugenics; Racism in education; Social aspects; United States
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. In exposing and addressing eugenics' place in our educational system, this book provides a groundbreaking to, and exceptional correction of, the history of curriculum in America."--Jacket.