Social Studies Controversies in 1960s Los Angeles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5783757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elaine Lewinnek (California State University, Fullerton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-84 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8684 • E-ISSN: 1533-8584 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/phr.2015.84.1.48 |
| OpenAlex | W2276067235 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
During the late 1960s, liberals and conservatives clashed in passionate debates over California's state-mandated eighth-grade U.S. history textbook, Land of the Free. Even as minority racial groups won civil rights battles and fought to integrate both the schools and the schools' social-studies curriculum, another minority-consisting of female white conservatives-fought tenaciously for control over education and public memory, promoting a romanticized fantasy of fundamentalist history
Social reform · White (mutation · Academic Freedom and Politics · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |