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Civil Rights, Culture Wars : The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook /
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracia...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conflict: combating ignorance
- Textbooks: their history, role, and importance
- Histories: earlier Mississippi history textbooks
- Writers: Jim Loewen, Charles Sallis, and their team
- Project: development and writing of conflict and change
- Reception: reviews and reactions
- Controversy: rejected by the textbook purchasing board
- Case: preparing the legal challenge
- Trial: Loewen v. Turnipseed in federal court
- Change: the book's effects and the culture wars.