Educating the Enemy

Name: Educating the Enemy
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226815435
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Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands

Autor: Jonna Perrillo

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Vydavateľ: The University of Chicago Press

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Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists...

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Autor

Jonna Perrillo

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2022

Stránok

216

EAN

9780226815435

ISBN

0226815439

Enbook ID

35611353

Vydavateľ

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnosť

468

Rozmery

236 x 159 x 22

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Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in Texas with the educational disadvantages faced by Mexican American students living in the same city. Educating the Enemy begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1946 as part of the military program called Operation Paperclip. These German children were bused daily from a military outpost to four El Paso public schools. Though born into a fascist enemy nation, the German children were quickly integrated into the schools and, by proxy, American society. Their rapid assimilation offered evidence that American public schools played a vital role in ensuring the victory of democracy over fascism. Jonna Perrillo not only tells this fascinating story of Cold War educational policy, but she draws an important contrast with another, much more numerous population of children in the El Paso public schools: Mexican Americans. Like everywhere else in the Southwest, Mexican American children in El Paso were segregated into “Mexican” schools, where the children received a vastly different educational experience. Not only were they penalized for speaking Spanish—the only language all but a few spoke due to segregation—they were tracked for low-wage and low-prestige careers, with limited opportunities for economic success. Educating the Enemy charts what two groups of children—one that might have been considered the enemy, the other that was treated as such—reveal about the ways political assimilation has been treated by schools as an easier, more viable project than racial or ethnic assimilation. Listen to an interview with the author here and read an interview in Time and a piece based on the book in the Boston Review.

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