The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education : Marginality, Agency, and Power

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.--Résumé de l'éditeur Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-15 The Racial Subjection of Filipinos in the Early Twentieth Century....Pages 17-40 Containing the Perimeter: Dynamics of Race, Sexual Orientation, and the State in the 1950s and ’60s....Pages 41-66 “It Is the Center to Which We Should Cling”: Indian Schools in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1900–1920....Pages 67-90 Searching for America: A Japanese American’s Quest,1900–1930....Pages 91-116 The Romance and Reality of Hispano Identity in New Mexico’s Schools, 1910–1940....Pages 117-140 Using the Press to Fight Jim Crow at Two White Midwestern Universities, 1900–1940....Pages 141-164 Breaking Barriers: The Pioneering Disability Students Services Program at the University of Illinois, 1948–1960....Pages 165-192 Mothers Battle Busing and Nontraditional Education in 1970s Detroit....Pages 193-220 Back Matter....Pages 221-226 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.--Résumé de l'éditeur