New to This Edition

• A new Chapter 1 discusses the racial and cultural values brought to North America by English colonists and their early plans for the education of Native Americans.
  
• A new section in Chapter 5 discusses how racial and cultural attitudes of the early English colonists help explain the denial of citizenship to Asian immigrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the educational segregation of Asian American children.
  
• A new section in Chapter 5 updates the current debate about multicultural education.
  

Features

• Deculturalization- refers to the process of stripping away the culture of the conquered people and replacing it with the dominant culture. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss this process, which has had a dramatic effect on the education of Native Americans and Puerto Ricans.
  
• Segregation- in terms of American education, refers to situations of economic exploitation, where a sense of inferiority is created within the segregated group and a sense of superiority within the dominant group. Chapter 4 discusses how African Americans and Chapter 5 how Mexican Americans and Asian Americans were segregated as part of the process of providing inexpensive labor in this country.
  
• The Civil Rights Movement- resulted from efforts by these dominated groups to restore their cultures and gain (among other things) equal educational opportunity. Their activism resulted in dramatic changes in the nature of education in the United States and provided proof that if people are willing to engage in united struggle, then educational change is possible.