The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education

by Tova Cooper

At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included freed African Americans, former reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population. In The Autobiography of Citizenship, Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried to impose unity on this divergent population, and how the new citizens in turn often resisted these efforts, reshaping mainstream U.S. culture and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081357014X
• ISBN13: 9780813570143
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"