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Civil Rights, Culture Wars

The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook
Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2019
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5480-5 (ISBN)
CHF 48,90 inkl. MwSt
In 1970s Mississippi, educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. This book explores the story of a controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds.
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. In 1974, when Random House's Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and corruption, the state textbook commission rejected the book, and its action prompted Loewen and Sallis to join others in a federal lawsuit (Loewen v. Turnipseed) challenging the book ban.

Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our understanding both of civil rights activism in the movement's last days and of an early controversy in the culture wars that persist today.

Charles W. Eagles is William F. Winter Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Mississippi.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 6 halftones
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 465 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4696-5480-6 / 1469654806
ISBN-13 978-1-4696-5480-5 / 9781469654805
Zustand Neuware
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