Essays in Twentieth-Century Southern Education - Exceptionalism and Its Limits

Informationen zum Autor Wayne J. Urban Klappentext A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race! class! reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range from broad based historical comparisons to analyses of select case studies. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range from historiacl comparisons to case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Chapter 1 Education in the Forming of the American South, John Hardin Best; Chapter 2 The School That Built a Town: Public Education and the Southern Social Landscape, 1880–1930, William A. Link; Chapter 3 Nation-Building for a Venerable South: Moral and Practical Uplift in the New Agricultural Education, 1900–1920, John M. Heffron; Chapter 4 Reconsidering the Washington-Du Bois Debate: Two Black Colleges in 1910–1911, Linda R. Buchanan, Philo A. Hutcheson; Chapter 5 The Southern Teacher in the Twentieth Century: Race Mattered, Clinton B. Allison; Chapter 6 “The Witness We Tried to Make”: Julia F. Allen and Racial Justice at Berea College, 1935–1974, Carolyn Terry Bashaw; Chapter 7 An American Dilemma: Teacher Testing and School Desegregation in the South, Scott Baker; Chapter 8 Liberalism at the Crossroads: Jimmy Carter, Joseph Califano, and Public College Desegregation, Wayne J. Urban; Chapter 9 Stasis or Change: Recent Histories of Twentieth-Century Southern Education, Wayne J. Urban;

Product details

• Authors: Wayne Urban
• Assisted by: Wayne Urban (Editor), Urban Wayne (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1998
• EAN: 9780815326243
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2624-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Studies in the History of Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; USA, Ethnic Studies, History: specific events & topics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, EDUCATION / Administration / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, United States of America, USA, History: specific events and topics, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Black & Asian Studies, Civics and citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General