Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States

by Joel Spring

Book Overview

Joel Spring's history of school polices imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization-the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0073378739
• ISBN13: 9780073378732
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.9"

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A good read for future educators

This book gives a very different look at the history of Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanics in the United States than you may have heard before. The content is easy to read, supplemented by statistics to help aid understanding. I would recommend this book to anyone who may be going to work in the education system.

The other side of American history

Spring's thesis is that white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have systematically denied educational access to ethnic minorities in order to establish and perpetuate their own system of privilege. This powerful, concise book covers historical injustices against many groups. The book falls short only when the author attempts to extend his analysis to the present day. In his understandable indignation at historical wrongs, Spring fails to acknowledge the extent to which most Americans' beliefs thankfully have changed.

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality

This book gives us a lot of examples of how the minorities in this country have had their cultures altered to fit the American version. There are examples of most of the major minority groups and how the education system has played a major part in the pattern of deculturalization.This book is a must have for any student who wants to know the real history, the stuff they leave out of the text books, for any parent or teacher who wants to give their children the truth instead of white washed history, and any person who is interested in the truth.