How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954
by
Zoe Burkholder
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
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, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret...