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Mwiria, Kilemi – History of Education, 1991
Discusses how the British colonial government in Kenya used the education system to strengthen political and economic power over the African majority. Describes the unequal allocation of education revenue, selective and punitive public examinations and a racially biased school curriculum. Concludes that Europeans' need to dominate Africans…
Descriptors: African History, Colonialism, Educational History, Ethnocentrism
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Hoefel, Roseanne – American Indian Quarterly, 2001
American Indian ethnographer and linguist Ella Cara Deloria and African American folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston did fieldwork for Franz Boas, the father of modern anthropology. Both were shocked by how American racism empowered white people's historical actions. By correcting stereotypes through their work, they reasserted the role of…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Anthropology, Black Culture