ERIC Number: EJ1388586
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-May
Pages: 25
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-2680
EISSN: EISSN-1748-5959
Schooling as a White Good
History of Education Quarterly, v63 n2 p154-178 May 2023
Schooling in the United States has never been a public good, nor has "the public good" been its primary goal. Since its origins in the early nineteenth century, schooling has been a "white" good, designed to promote white advantage. Three mechanisms, among many, have been key to this process: the relationship of schooling to place, the knowledge that schools impart, and the hobbling of brown and Black children. Insofar as schooling has approached being a public good, that tendency has emerged as the result of counter-majoritarian, explicitly racial activism led by non-white people. The struggle for racial justice has been the struggle of moving schooling from a white good to a public good.
Descriptors: Education, Whites, Racial Factors, Racism, Advantaged, Power Structure, Role of Education, Minority Group Students, Activism, Minority Groups, Social Justice, Educational History, United States History, Social Mobility, Altruism
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