Color in the classroom [electronic resource] : how American schools taught race, 1900-1954 / Zo�e Burkholder.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.Description: xi, 252 p. : illISBN:- 9780199751723 (acid-free paper)
- 9780199876969 (e-book)
- 305.80071 22
- HT1506 .B87 2011eb

Includes bibliographical references 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.