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Author Stratton, Clif, 1980- author.

Title Education for empire : American schools, race, and the paths of good citizenship / Clif Stratton
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016

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Contents Introduction: good citizens -- Geography, history, and citizenship -- Visions of white California -- Hawaiian cosmopolitans and the American Pacific -- Black Atlanta's education through labor -- Becoming white New Yorkers -- Colonial citizens, deportable citizens -- Epilogue: knowledge and citizenship
Summary "Education for Empire examines how American public schools created and placed children on multiple and uneven paths to "good citizenship." These paths offered varying kinds of subordination and degrees of exclusion closely tied to race, national origin, and US imperial ambitions. Public school administrators, teachers, and textbook authors grappled with how to promote and share in the potential benefits of commercial and territorial expansion, and in both territories and states, how to apply colonial forms of governance to the young populations they professed to prepare for varying future citizenships. The book brings together subjects in American history usually treated separately--in particular the formation and expansion of public schools and empire building both at home and abroad. Temporally framed by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion and 1924 National Origins Acts, two pivotal immigration laws deeply entangled in and telling of US quests for empire, case studies in California, Hawaiʻi, Georgia, New York, the Southwest, and Puerto Rico reveal that marginalized people contested, resisted, and blazed alternative paths to citizenship, in effect destabilizing the boundaries that white nationalists, including many public school officials, in the United States and other self-described "white men's countries" worked so hard to create and maintain"--Provided by publisher
Analysis american public schools
citizenship and education
colonialism and education
educating immigrants
educating minorities
education in us
gilded age education
history of us education
immigrant education
imperial education
minority education in us
minority education
multiethnic curriculum
nationalism and education
progressive era education
public school and colonialism
public school system
race relations in school management
racism in education
racism in us education
school administrators
teachers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Racism in education -- United States -- History
Racism in education -- United States -- Case studies
Education and state -- United States -- History
Race relations in school management -- United States -- History
Nationalism and education -- United States -- History
Minorities -- Education -- United States -- History
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Education and state
Minorities -- Education
Nationalism and education
Race relations in school management
Racism in education
SUBJECT United States -- Territorial expansion -- Social aspects
Subject United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015032356
ISBN 9780520961050
0520961056