This book examines the pedagogy of white supremacy in the United States the American
Colonization Society and the eugenics movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Both education and the larger society promoted the idea of the sacred mission of
Anglo-Christians who were seen as God's chosen people. Public policy and education were used
to teach whites that black people were inferior and unsuitable for citizenship. Federal state
and local governments as well as religious leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries argued for the removal of all black people from the United States. Others used
education as a means of discrediting the intelligence of African Americans while at the same
time miseducating and deculturalizing African Americans to artificially create a homogenous
society.
