The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954

by William H. Watkins

Book Overview

A historical investigation into the political and ideological foundations of the "miseducation of the Negro" in America, this timely and provocative volume explores the men and ideas that helped shape educational and societal apartheid from the Civil War to the new millennium. It is a study of how big corporate power uses private wealth to legislate, shape unequal race relations, broker ideas, and define "acceptable" social change. Drawing on little-known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080774042X
• ISBN13: 9780807740422
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"