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The starting point for the “Globalization of Western Culture”. European colonizers saw themselves as “civilized” and indigenous people as “uncivilized”. Columbus’s landing was the start of a global ideology that would later justify deculturalization and racial hierarchies.
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The thirteenth amendment officially abolished slavery ending legal ownership of enslaved african americans(did not bring full equality). Education became a crucial focus for freed africans americans. The end of slavery began a new fight for injustice through segregation, limited citizenship, and unequal education systems.
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Legalized racial segregation under "separate but equal”. The supreme court ruling gave official approval to unequal schooling for African Americans. It reinforced white cultural dominance by limiting Black students access to quality learning.
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During WW2, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly placed in internment camps. Schools inside camps taught loyalty to the U.S. and discouraged Japanese Language and culture. Reflects how fear and racism justified the deculturalization of entire communities.
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Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring segregated schools unconstitutional. Brown represents a challenge to systemic deculturalization and recognizes that equality requires dismantling of systems built on foundations of white superiority.
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Law prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This act forced segregated schools to integrate or lose federal funding. Marks a crucial legal move towards dismantling educational deculturalization by using federal power to promote equality across schools, jobs, and public institutions.
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By outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory practices required for voting, this law expanded democracy and empowered African Americans politically. This act achieved educational and social equality
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The court ruled that schools must address the needs of students who don’t speak English. It recognized language as a central part of culture, affirming that denying bilingual education was a form of deculturalization. This pushed schools into linguistic inclusion.
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After repeated police killings of unarmed Black people, BLM spoke against systemic racism. It exposed racial inequality in education, housing, and justice. Institutional racism and deculturalization persists despite legal equality, renewing the struggles for cultural and social recognition.
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The pandemic revealed and deepened existing racial and class inequalities in education. Online learning harmed students of color and low-income families, highlighting the inequities and cultural bias in schooling still exist by denying equal access, representation, and opportunity within the American education system.