Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820481463)

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. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic groups, the urban poor, rural White trash, the sexually deviant, Blacks, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, Latino/as, and anyone who did not fit with the pseudo-scientifically established superior Nordic race. Education leaders, complaining of children of worm-eaten stock, established an enduring system to organize and sort students according to perceived societal worth. In exposing and addressing eugenics' place in our educational system, this book provides a groundbreaking addition to, and exceptional correction of, the history of curriculum in America.

Author: William F. Pinar, Ann Winfield
ISBN-10: 0820481467
ISBN-13: 9780820481463
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2007
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 203