Description: Preface CHAPTER 1: Deculturalization and the Claim of Racial and Cultural Superiority by Anglo Americans Culture and Race as Central Issues in U.S. History and Education Deculturalization and Democratic Thought Race, Racism, and Citizenship Concepts of Cultural and Racial Superiority The Naturalization Act of 1790 and What It Means to Be White Education and Creation of an Anglo-American Culture Educational and Cultural Differences Early Native American Educational Programs Schooling and Colonization of the "Five Civilized Tribes" Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 2: Deculturalization and the Schooling of Native Americans Citizenship in the New Republic Thomas L. McKenney: The Cultural Power of Schooling The Missionary Educators Language and Native American Cultures Indian Removal and Civilization Programs Native Americans: Reservations and Boarding Schools TheMeriam Report Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 3: Deculturalization, Transformation, and Segregation: African Americans Atlantic Creoles Slavery and Cultural Change in the North Freedom in Northern States Educational Segregation Boston and the Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity Plantation Society Learning to Read Citizenship for African Americans Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Education The Great Crusade for Literacy Resisting Segregation The Second Crusade Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 4: Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation Citizenship Education: From Coolie to Model Minority and Gook Educating the "Coolie," "Deviant," and "Yellow Peril" Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 5: Hispanic/Latino Americans: Exclusion and Segregation What's in a Name? Issues Regarding Mexican American Citizenship Issues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship Mexican American Educational Issues Puerto Rican American Educational Issues Methods of Deculturalization and Americanization Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 6: The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars School Desegregation Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Native Americans Indian Education: A National Tragedy Asian Americans: Educating the "Model Minority" Asian Americans: Language and the Continued Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity Hispanic/Latino Americans Bilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued Multicultural Education, Immigration, and the Culture Wars The Next Chapter in the Culture Wars: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Conclusion: Human and Educational Rights Notes

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