Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865–2000

Christine Woyshner, Chara Haeussler Bohan

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781137007544
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137007605
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of fi gures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One Race, Social Studies, and Culturally Relevant Curriculum in Social Studies’ Prehistory: A Cautionary Meditation
• Two The Racial and Cultural Assumptions of the Early Social Studies Educators, 1901–1922
• Three The Early Years of Negro History Week, 1926–1950
• Four Notions of Citizenship: Discussing Race in the Shortridge High School Senate, 1900–1928
• Five Countering the Master Narrative in US Social Studies: Nannie Helen Burroughs and New Narratives in History Education
• Six Race in Elementary Geography Textbooks: Examples from South Carolina, 1890–1927
• Seven Atlanta’s Desegregation-Era Social Studies Curriculum: An Examination of Georgia History Textbooks
• Eight Placing Social Justice at the Center of Standards-Based Reform: Race and Social Studies at McDonogh #35 Senior High, New Orleans, 1980–2000
• Nine Black History, Multicultural Education, and Racial Desegregation in Dayton, Ohio
• Ten African-Centered Education in the Detroit Public Schools, 1968–2000
• Epilogue
• Contributors
• Index