Table of Contents

Introduction; Why anthropology?; Chapter I: Anthropology and education; Some theoretical issues in educational historiography; Some thoughts on anthropology, representation and history; Conclusion; Chapter II: The Bourgeois turn: The nursery of Milner's kindergarten; The education of the British working class; Ireland: The colonial laboratory; Capitalist education policy in colonized Jamaica; Mixed signals: The Bourgeois veneer in Indian education; Conclusion; Chapter III: South Africa before 1900; Introduction; Cecil Rhodes as context; Missionaries and "peaceful subjugation"; Chapter IV: Removing the Gloves in the New Century: The Education Debates; Introduction; Education and the solution of the crisis of African labour; The missions fall in line; Chapter V: The two USAs; African-American education in the Southern United States; Educational foundations: Guiding inequity; Exporting the model; Chapter VI: Charles Templeman Loram: Forefather of Bantu education; Introduction; A critical look at the education of the South African native; Conclusion; Chapter VII: The alliance for regress; Introduction; Pan-African otherness: The Phelps-Stokes commissions; The advisory committee on education in the colonies; Modern craniology: Intelligence tests; Conclusion; Chapter VIII: Functionalism and the international institute of African languages and cultures: Whoring for Empire; Malinowski delivers his "Nig Lec."; Conclusion; Chapter IX: Resistances: The struggle for education; Introduction; African responses to colonial education; W.E.B. Du Bois: A passion for justice; Conclusion; Chapter X: Conclusions; Introduction; Clearing the way for Apartheid: South Africa in the 1930s legacies; Some last thoughts on education and the cultivation of difference; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Joseph Daniel Reilly is a scholar and activist from the United States of America. He joined the anti-apartheid movement during the National Union of Mineworkers strike in 1986, organizing conferences, speaking, writing and researching during the anti-apartheid and post-apartheid era.