A Curriculum of Repression: A Pedagogy of Racial History in the United States

by Haroon Kharem

This book examines the pedagogy of white supremacy in the United States, the American Colonization Society, and the eugenics movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both education and the larger society promoted the idea of the sacred mission of Anglo-Christians, who were seen as God's chosen people. Public policy and education were used to teach whites that black people were inferior and unsuitable for citizenship. Federal, state,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820456632
• ISBN13: 9780820456638
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"