| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study. By Michael C. Coleman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 367 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1563-4.)

Do national school systems function as institutions of liberation? Do they operate as avenues of opportunity? Sociologists and other scholars, dating back to Antonio Gramsci's compilation of work on bourgeois hegemony, have pondered these questions. Beginning in the late 1960s, many revisionist American educational historians likewise analyzed the policies, structure, and practices of the American public schools as a source of acculturation, racism, sexism, and general inequality. Comparative education researchers have also delved into how schools have been used both to obliterate cultures and, as subversive institutions, to rekindle and preserve folk languages and other traditions. National schools have always been—and remain—battlegrounds of cultures.

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