Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Myths and history in the making of race and ethnicity
  • What is not taught in school : the origin of British North America and racial slavery
  • "City upon a hill" : the contradictions of humanism and exceptionalism on the road to revolution
  • The American Revolution to the Civil War : abolition, and the invention of racism
  • The great divide : the Civil War to modern racism
  • Education and the melting pot : ethnicity in the era of Jim Crow
  • Civil rights movement : the long road to freedom
  • The politics of educational opportunity and identity
  • Conclusion : understanding the past for today and all tomorrows.