The quest for citizenship : African American and Native American education in Kansas, 1880-1935

Summary: "In this engrossing comparative study, Kim Warren explores the education of African American arid Native American students in Kansas in order to make larger claims about the meanings and expectations of U.S. citizenship. The work she has done to unearth fresh materials, as well as to smartly reexamine well-known figures in the histories of black and Indian schooling, shines through in this illuminating book."--Tiya Miles, author of Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom.

Record details

ISBN: 9780807833964
ISBN: 0807833967
ISBN: 9780807871379
ISBN: 0807871370
Physical Description: print
xiv, 229 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Origins, ideology, and racial hierarchies. Reformers: "friends of the Indians" and "friends of the Negroes" -- Curriculum: acquiring the habits of citizenship -- Strategies of negotiation. Students: Native American negotiations at Haskell Institute -- Parents: African American integration on the "plateau of uncertainty" -- New leaders in the twentieth century. Teachers: from industrial education to African American race pride -- Identity: Native American biculturalism -- Conclusion. Unintended consequences: the next generation.