Racial Consciousness In The College Classroom
Racial Consciousness In The College Classroom
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大学课堂中的种族意识
DOI:
10.1080/0020486760140310
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发表时间:
1976
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通讯作者:
R. Schaefer
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作者:
F. M. Carter;R. Schaefer
Although racial and ethnic tensions have a long history, the systematic offering of courses in the field of race relations began about forty years ago. 1 In the 1930s a course in race and nationalities team-taught at the University of Chicago by Robert Park, Louis Wirth, Robert Redfield, and Herbert Blumer, launched the classroom study of the topic. Since then, courses focusing on minorities have been offered with increasing frequency. But because of the racial composition of college faculty and students, such courses have mostly been taught by whites to other whites.The 1960s and 1970s to date have seen a change in this situation. Implementation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and affirmative action programs have increased the presence of minority group members, especially blacks, on predominantly white college campuses as both students and instructors. The likelihood of a minority group student facing a majority group instructor is much greater today, particularly in urban-based, state-financed institutions. There have been changes even at geographically-isolated and privately-financed institutions.