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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPeter Lang
ISBN-139780820481463
eBay Product ID (ePID)128880703
Product Key Features
Number of Pages195 Pages
Publication NameEugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory
LanguageEnglish
SubjectStrategy, History
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaExperimental Psychology
AuthorAnn Gibson Winfield
SeriesComplicated Conversation: a Book Series of Curriculum Studies
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height230 mm
Item Weight310 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorAnn Gibson Winfield