Classroom Wars Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture
by Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman-
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Summary
In Classroom Wars, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts how a state and a citizenry deeply committed to public education as an engine of civic and moral education navigated the massive changes brought about by the 1960s, including the sexual revolution, school desegregation, and a dramatic increase in Latino immigration. She traces the mounting tensions over educational progressivism, cultural and moral decay, and fiscal improvidence, using sources ranging from policy documents to student newspapers, from course evaluations to oral histories. Petrzela reveals how a growing number of Americans fused values about family, personal, and civic morality, which galvanized a powerful politics that engaged many Californians and, ultimately, many Americans. In doing so, they blurred the distinction between public and private and inspired some of the fiercest classroom wars in American history. Taking readers from the cultures of Orange County mega-churches to Berkeley coffeehouses, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela's history of these classroom controversies sheds light on the bitterness of the battles over diversity we continue to wage today and their influence on schools and society nationwide.
Author Biography
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is Assistant Professor of History at The New School and a former public school teacher. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and The Huffington Post. Visit her website at www.nataliapetrzela.com for more information on her writing, teaching, and events.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Language
Ch. 1 The Beginnings of Modern Bilingual Education
Ch. 2 The Polarization of Bilingual Education
Ch. 3 "Birds of Many Colors": Language, Culture, and Community in 1970s San Jose
Ch. 4 "Some Kind of Precedent": The Ambiguous Legacy of Bilingual Education
Part Two: Sex
Ch. 5 "The Pot was Already Boiling": Parents, Teachers, Taxes, and Sex Education in San Mateo
Ch. 6 Family Life and Sex Education and the Unmaking of Anaheim's "Golden Age"
Ch. 7 "Which Way America?" California's Moral Guidelines Committee and the Forging of a Patriotic Morality
Ch. 8 "This Thing is Spreading All Over California": Sex Education in the Seventies
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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