1. Deculturalization and the claim of racial and cultural superiority by Anglo-Americans. Culture and race as central issues in U.S. history and education ; Globalization : the meaning of "uncivilized" and "pagan" ; Anglo-Saxon concepts of cultural and religious superiority ; Race, racism, and citizenship ; The meaning of equality ; Globalization and culture : cultural genocide, deculturalization, assimilation, cultural pluralism, denial of education, and hybridization ; Deculturalization and democratic thought ; The Naturalization Act of 1790 and what it means to be White ; Education and creation of an Anglo-American culture ; Educational and cultural differences ; Early Native American educational programs ; Schooling and the colonization of the "Five Civilized Tribes" ; Conclusion
2. Native Americans : deculturalization, schooling, globalization and inequality ; Citizenship in the new republic ; Thomas L. McKenney : the cultural power of schooling ; The missionary educators ; Language and Native American cultures ; Indian removal and civilization programs ; Native Americans : reservations and boarding schools ; The Meriam Report ; Conclusion
3. African Americans : globalization and the African diaspora. Cultural transformation and the forced migration of enslaved Africans ; Atlantic Creoles ; Slavery and cultural change in the North ; Freedom in Northern States ; Educational segregation ; Boston and the struggle for equal educational opportunity ; Plantation society ; Learning to read ; Citizenship for African Americans
Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Education
The Great Crusade for Literacy
Resisting segregation ; The Second Crusade ; Conclusion
4. Asian Americans : exclusion and segregation. Globalization and diaspora : Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian ; Asian diaspora to the United States ; Citizenship ; Education : from coolie to model minority and gook ; Educating the coolie, deviant, and yellow peril ; Conclusion
5. Hispanic/Latino Americans : exclusion and segregation. What's in a name? ; Issues regarding Mexican American citizenship ; Issues regarding Puerto Rican citizenship ; Mexican American educational issues ; Puerto Rican American educational issues ; Summary list of Americanization policies in public schools in Puerto Rico ; Methods of deculturalization and Americanization ; Conclusion
6. The great Civil Rights movement and the new culture wars. Globalization : the great Civil Rights movement and wars of liberation ; School desegregation ; Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Native Americans ; Indian education : a national tragedy ; Asian Americans : educating the "model minority" Asian Americans : language and the continued struggle for equal educational opportunity ; Hispanic/Latino Americans ; Bilingual education : the culture wars continued ; Multicultural education, immigration, and the culture wars ; Conclusion: Human and educational rights
7. Resegregation of American schools in a "post-racial" society. The meaning of equality in No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 ; A new meaning for equality : from opportunity to learn standards to No Child Left Behind ; What's missing in No Child Left Behind? ; What's left after No Child Left Behind? ; Segregation of low-income students ; Income and racial segregation of low achieving students ; What are the consequences of segregation of low achieving students? ; Resegregation in a post-racial society ; Changing concepts of race ; Government use of racial categories ; Patterns of adjustment of new immigrants ; Conclusion: The meaning of equality.
Deculturalization and the racial and cultural superiority of Anglo Americans
Deculturalization and the schooling of Native Americans
Deculturalization of Puerto Ricans
Education and segregation : African Americans
Education as segregation : Asian Americans and Mexican Americans
The great civil rights movement and the new culture wars.
