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Rethinking Racial, Ethnoracial, and Imperial Categories: Key Concepts in Comparative Race Studies in the History of Education

Part of: 60th Anniversary Forum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2020

Kim Cary Warren
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While researching racially segregated education, I came across speeches delivered in the 1940s by two educational leaders—one a black man and the other a Native American man. G. B. Buster, a longtime African American teacher, implored his African American listeners to work with white Americans on enforcing equal rights for all. A few years before Buster delivered his speech, Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago), a Native American educator, was more critical of white Americans, specifically the federal government, which he blamed for destroying American Indian cultures. At the same time, Roe Cloud praised more recent federal efforts to preserve cultural practices, study traditions before they completely disappeared, and encourage self-government among Native American tribes.

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historyraceethnoracialsexualitycivil rights
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60th Anniversary HEQ Forum
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , November 2020 , pp. 657 - 669
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Copyright © 2020 History of Education Society

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