TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burkholder,Zoe
TI  - Color in the classroom: how American schools taught race, 1900-1954 
SN  - 9780199751723 (acid-free paper)
AV  - HT 1506 B959c 2011
U1  - 305.80071 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - England, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Race
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Racism
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index; Introduction : the social construction of race in American schools -- Race as nation, 1900-1938 -- Franz Boas : reforming "race" in American schools -- Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead : teaching teachers race and culture -- Race as color, 1939-1945 -- Race as culture, 1946-1954 -- Conclusion : race and educational equality after Brown v. Board of Education
N2  - Color in the Classroom is the first historical analysis of how schools and teachers powerfully influenced the social construction of race in America in the half century before the Brown decision
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37363
ER  -