Education for empire : American schools, race, and the paths of good citizenship /

"Education for Empire examines how American public schools created and placed children on multiple and uneven paths to "good citizenship." These paths offered varying kinds of subordination and degrees of exclusion closely tied to race, national origin, and US imperial ambitions. Publ...

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Author / Creator: Stratton, Clif, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: good citizens
  • Geography, history, and citizenship
  • Visions of white California
  • Hawaiian cosmopolitans and the American Pacific
  • Black Atlanta's education through labor
  • Becoming white New Yorkers
  • Colonial citizens, deportable citizens
  • Epilogue: knowledge and citizenship.