A Chance to Learn
How - and why - have children of blacks, American Indians, Mexican-Americans, and Puerto Ricans been deprived by and often excluded from the so-called American educational system? In this classic 1977 study of a problem neglected or undervalued in most standard histories of American education, Professor Meyer Weinberg seeks the answers. Concretely and empirically, he shows that from their forebearers' first contact with dominant American society, minority children have been shockingly...
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Preface; Introduction: race in American education; Part I. Elementary and Secondary Education: 1. The system of compulsory ignorance; 2. Separate and unequal: black education, 1864–1950; 3. Struggle for public policy: black children since 1950; 4. Mexican-American children: the neighbours within; 5. Indian-American children; 6. Puerto Rican children; Part II. Higher Education: 7. Guarded preserve: black students in higher education; 8. Higher education for other minorities; Part III. Conclusions: 9. To educate all the children of all the people; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
