Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Contentious curricula : Afrocentrism and creationism in American public schools / Amy J. Binder

Author
Binder, Amy J., 1964-
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 307 pages).
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Series
Contents
Introduction to Afrocentrism and Creationism, challenges to educational "injustice" -- The challengers -- History of the three Afrocentric cases: Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York State -- Cultural, political, and organizational factors influencing Afrocentric outcomes -- History of the four Creationist cases: Louisiana State; California State; Vista, California; and Kansas State -- Cultural, political, and organizational factors influencing Creationist outcomes -- Making more institutional the study of change.
Summary
This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements. Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how their challenges played out in seven school districts. Despite their very different constituencies--inner-city African American cultural essentialists and predominately white suburban Christian conservat.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9781400825455 (electronic bk.)
1400825458 (electronic bk.)
069111790X
9780691117904
9780691091808 (alk. paper)
0691091803 (alk. paper)
Digital File Characteristics
data file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 43112813