Eugenics and education in America : institutionalized racism and the implications of history, ideology, and memory / Ann Gibson Winfield

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Object Details

Author
Winfield, Ann Gibson
NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment.
Contents
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ideology, tools, and perspective -- What is eugenics? -- Fear of the "other" -- The dilution of genetic "stock" -- Immune to invalidation -- Dissemination campaign -- Sterilization of the unfit -- Progressive roots -- Eugenics and education : the "fathers" of curriculum -- Testing as a tool -- Why it matters -- How it matters -- Role of collective memory -- 2. Memory, history, and culture -- Memory and history -- Memory -- Sustaining social contexts -- Memory within the family -- Memory and social class -- Manipulation of memory -- The role of virtue -- Types of memory : personal, cognitive, and habit -- History and memory -- Constructionism and constructivism -- 3. Popular, media, and material culture -- Artifacts and objects -- Artifacts and beliefs -- Shaping perception -- Mass culture -- Myths and symbols -- Cultural transmission -- Meaning emerges -- Verbal influence -- 4. Early race theory : from science to civic virtue -- Great chain of being -- From religion to biology -- Puritan legacy -- Myth of errand and progress -- Darwin to Comte : science and race unite -- Darwin -- Positivism -- Social Darwinism -- "Survival of the fittest" -- "White man's burden" -- Eugenics and science -- Francis Galton -- Karl Pearson -- Progressive movement -- 5. Eugenics : content and context -- Eugenic beliefs and imperatives -- Heredity -- Race and difference -- Ability and degeneracy -- The social crisis : immigration -- Poverty -- Crime and dependency -- 6. The moral solution -- Marriage and immigration -- Disseminate the message -- 7. Education, a new frontier -- A new frontier -- Early conceptions of curriculum -- Humanists and mental discipline -- Developmentalists and child study -- Social efficiency and sorting -- Social meliorists and justice -- Confluence of philosophies -- Thorndike -- Bobbitt -- Hall -- Goddard -- Charters -- 8. Ability and degeneracy in the schools -- Ability -- Questioning the rhetoric -- Transitioning into the modern era -- Developments in education -- Scientific curriculum 1946-1965 -- The legacy : race and education -- Social impact of Brown -- Academic differences -- Health and safety -- 9. Epilogue, excavating memory -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
"Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics - an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. In exposing and addressing eugenics' place in our educational system, this book provides a groundbreaking to, and exceptional correction of, the history of curriculum in America."--Jacket.
2007
©2007
20th century
Type
Books
History
Physical description
xxii, 195 pages ; 23 cm
Place
United States
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Racism in education
Eugenics--Social aspects
Discrimination in education
Racism--History
Record ID
siris_sil_1108179
Metadata Usage (text)
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