Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory

Author/Contributor(s):	Pinar, William F ; Winfield, Ann
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Date:	02/23/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics - an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic groups, the urban poor, rural «White trash, » the sexually «deviant, » Blacks, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, Latino/as, and anyone who did not fit with the pseudo-scientifically established «superior» Nordic race. Education leaders, complaining of children of «worm-eaten stock, » established an enduring system to organize and sort students according to perceived societal worth. In exposing and addressing eugenics' place in our educational system, this book provides a groundbreaking addition to, and exceptional correction of, the history of curriculum in America.