Education for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship / Edition 1

by Clif Stratton

Overview

Education for Empire brings together topics in American history often treated separately: schools, race, immigration, and empire building. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American imperial ambitions abroad expanded as the country's public school system grew. How did this imperialism affect public education? School officials, teachers, and textbook authors used public education to place children, both native and foreign-born, on multiple uneven paths to citizenship. 
 
Using case studies from around the country, Clif Stratton deftly shows that public schooling and colonialism were intimately intertwined. This book reveals how students—from Asians in the U.S. West and Hawai‘i to blacks in the South, Mexicans in the Southwest, and Puerto Ricans in the Caribbean and New York City—grappled with the expectations of citizenship imposed by nationalist professionals at the helm of curriculum and policy. Students of American history, American studies, and the history of education will find Education for Empire an eminently valuable book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520285675
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	01/26/2016
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Clif Stratton is Clinical Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Director of the Roots of Contemporary Issues program at Washington State University. He is the 2014 recipient of the American Historical Association's Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Good Citizens 1

1 Geography, History, and Citizenship 16

2 Visions of White California 50

3 Hawaiian Cosmopolitans and the American Pacific 85

4 Black Atlanta's Education through Labor 118

5 Becoming White New Yorkers 145

6 Colonial Citizens, Deportable Citizens 173

Epilogue: Knowledge and Citizenship 211

Notes 219

Works Cited 251

Index 269