The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education

Marginality, Agency, and Power

E. Tamura

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780230600430
• eBook ISBN: 9780230611030
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: History

How have power and agency been revealed in educational issues involving minorities? More specifically: how have politicians, policymakers, practitioners, and others in the mainstream used and misused their power in relation to those in the margins? How have those in the margins asserted their agency and negotiated their way within the larger society? What have been the relationships, not only between those more powerful and those less powerful, but also among those on the fringes of society? How have people sought to bridge the gap separating those in the margins and those in the mainstream? The essays in this book respond to these questions by delving into the educational past to reveal minority issues involving ethnicity, gender, class, disability, and sexual identity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education
• CONTENTS
• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Racial Subjection of Filipinos in the Early Twentieth Century
• 2 Containing the Perimeter: Dynamics of Race, Sexual Orientation, and the State in the 1950s and ’60s
• 3 “It Is the Center to Which We Should Cling”: Indian Schools in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1900–1920
• 4 Searching for America: A Japanese American’s Quest,1900–1930
• 5 The Romance and Reality of Hispano Identity in New Mexico’s Schools, 1910–1940
• 6 Using the Press to Fight Jim Crow at Two White Midwestern Universities, 1900–1940
• 7 Breaking Barriers: The Pioneering Disability Students Services Program at the University of Illinois, 1948–1960
• 8 Mothers Battle Busing and Nontraditional Education in 1970s Detroit
• Index