At the turn of the twentieth century, the US was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included African Americans, reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population. Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried to impose unity on this divergent population, and how the new citizens in turn often resisted these efforts, reshaping mainstream U.S. culture and embracing their own view of what it means to be an American.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included African Americans, reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population. Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried to impose unity on this divergent population, and how the new citizens in turn often resisted these efforts, reshaping mainstream U.S. culture and embracing their own view of what it means to be an American.
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 On Autobiography, Boy Scouts, and Citizenship: Revisiting Charles Eastman’s Deep Woods 2 The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the “Indian” in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts 3 Speaking the Body: German-Jewish Americanization Programs, Eastern European Jews, and the Autobiographical Work of Abraham Cahan 4 Curricular Cosmopolitans: W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams 5 Emma Goldman, the Modern School, and the Politics of Reproduction Conclusion Notes Index
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 On Autobiography, Boy Scouts, and Citizenship: Revisiting Charles Eastman’s Deep Woods 2 The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the “Indian” in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts 3 Speaking the Body: German-Jewish Americanization Programs, Eastern European Jews, and the Autobiographical Work of Abraham Cahan 4 Curricular Cosmopolitans: W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams 5 Emma Goldman, the Modern School, and the Politics of Reproduction Conclusion Notes Index
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