Whose America?

Culture Wars in the Public Schools

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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In this expanded edition of his 2002 book, Zimmerman surveys how battles over public education have become conflicts at the heart of American national identity. Critical Race Theory. The 1619 Project. Mask mandates. As the headlines remind us, American public education is still wracked by culture wars. But these conflicts have shifted sharply over the past two decades, marking larger changes in the ways that Americans imagine themselves. In his 2002 book, Whose America?, Zimmerman predicted that religious differences would continue to dominate the culture wars. Twenty years after that seminal work, Zimmerman has reconsidered: arguments over what American history is, what it means, and how it is taught have exploded with special force in recent years. In this substantially expanded new edition, Zimmerman meditates on the history of the culture wars in the classroom—and on what our inability to find common ground might mean for our future.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-26
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
Upplaga2
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226820392

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Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction: Beyond Dayton and ChicagoPart 1: History WarsChapter 1: Ethnicity and the History WarsChapter 2: Struggles over Race and SectionalismChapter 3: Social Studies Wars in New Deal AmericaChapter 4: The Cold War Assault on TextbooksChapter 5: Black Activism, White Resistance, and MulticulturalismPart 2: God in the SchoolsChapter 6: Religious Education in Public SchoolsChapter 7: School Prayer and the Conservative RevolutionChapter 8: The Battle for Sex EducationPart 3: From Religion to HistoryChapter 9: Twenty-First-Century Culture Wars: From 9/11 to Donald TrumpConclusion: Who Are We Now?AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesIndex

"A lot has changed in the education culture wars in the last 100 years, and a lot hasn't. The guest who we're about to introduce notes that the former Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, said in 2020, 'The path to save the nation is very simple. It's going to go through school boards.' [Zimmerman] [is the] perfect guest to trace this history with us. . . . [Zimmerman] [is the] education historian at the University of Pennsylvania, author of the book, Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools. [Zimmerman] also had an article in Politico published in 2021 called Why the Culture Wars in Schools Are Worse Than Ever."