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...Aviva F. Taubenfeld The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education . By Cooper Tova . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 264 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper, $31.95 ; e-book, $31.95 . Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation...

... of education as a commodity in the marketplace. This promise, education as a gift of freedom, fails—it fails to speak to students today, fails to remedy racial and gendered disparities, and fails by giving students tests to pass that fail to make them think. Douglass, by contrast, sees literacy and freedom...

..., women’s rights, legislative reform, capital punishment, and prison reform to more general themes such as education, public health and hygiene, manners, literature, art, drama, and music. Yet even this list fails to give a sense...

... and intertwined beliefs that African Americans were children, and that children's subjectivities could be shaped according to the will of their educators. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Anna Mae ​“Like a Motherless Child”: Racial Education Duane at the New York African Free School...

... in large numbers. They could construct the educational system the state lacked, and their presence in a state whose population was 47 percent African American could decide crucial elections. In order to encourage immigration, Swaim wrote articles for the Northern press extolling the state’s climate...

... 2008 Editions The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version . Ed. Edward Chalfant and Conrad Edick Wright. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xiv, 500 pp. $34.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times...

...Evan Carton Duke University Press 2002 Evan Crossing Harpers Ferry: Liberal Education and Carton John Brown’s Corpus On the afternoon of his capture at Harpers Ferry, John Brown lay on a bloody pallet in the arsenal paymaster’s office and conducted...

... poli- tics to frame a different welcome for new immigrants. Civil Rights vet- eran Rev. C. T. Vivian of Atlanta, for example, emphasizes the simi- larities between African American and Latino needs in areas such as public education and calls for multiracial and multiethnic alliances to advance...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America . By Angela Vietto. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2005. ix, 147 pp. $89.95. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic . By Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill: Univ...

...Guadalupe Escobar Abstract This article takes up the figure of the DREAMer in the twenty-first-century Latinx memoir by the formerly undocumented to consider the coupling of the right to education with narratability. The author reads Alberto Ledesma’s Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer (2017), Reyna...

... and transferring learning from the course to action as a citizen. This pedagogy ultimately fosters a liberal education that explicitly links private study with public concerns and that encourages students to see themselves as potential agents of change in a neoliberal state that identifies them merely as consumers...

...Kevin J. White Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit . By Archibald Joann . Vancouver : Univ. of British Columbia Press . 2008 . xiv, 176 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $29.95 . Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee...

...Tova Cooper Cooper's essay shows how the photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston at educational institutions such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and Hampton Institute, as well as in the Washington, D.C., public schools, show the influence of social Darwinism on progressive...

...Christopher Newfield The United States has long been seen as the world's leader in higher education, but in fact its academic outcomes have been stagnating or falling for years. Newfield shows that the current funding model for higher education is not the solution to this educational crisis but its...

... and educationally disadvantaged students. City College had long been known as the “Harvard of the proletariat” for offering free education primarily to the children of white Jewish immigrants. SEEK made the university look more like the surrounding, predominantly African American and Puerto Rican neighborhood...

... of college education as such. Campus novels like Owen Johnson's Stover at Yale (1912) are committed to the belief that the corruption of sports by business interests emblemizes the corruption of the university as a whole, while the ideal of sports uncorrupted by business represents the ideal...

...Molly Farrell Farrell places Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in the context of the nineteenth-century movement for education reform. Her essay explores the novel's representation of pedagogy and adoption and how these techniques worked simultaneously to incorporate...

...Sarah Ensor Abstract This article argues that pedagogy may help us respond to the precarity of higher education by reclaiming the forms of provisionality, accident, and exposure endemic to collaborative learning. Putting kinship theory into contact with studies of contagion, I suggest...

... of white women. First, the article examines how humane education initiatives taught children to exert police-like roles in animal welfare work, capitalizing on existing cultural connections between children and animals to then teach children to disidentify from and ultimately help control racialized animal...