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Title:'The color of the pupils': schooling and race in Senegal's cities, 1900-10
Author:Bryant, Kelly DukeISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537)
Volume:52
Issue:3
Pages:299-319
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:racism
access to education
schooling
educational policy
colonial policy
1900-1909
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41480242
Abstract:This article explores the politics of race and education in early twentieth-century urban Senegal, focusing on the exclusion of African students from certain schools and on the political controversy that grew out of a 1909 education reform. Based on letters from officials, politicians, and African residents, along with minutes from the General Council, it suggests that changes in urban society and colonial policy encouraged people to view access to schooling in terms of race. This article argues that in debating segregation and education quality, residents contributed to a discourse on race that reflected an increasing racial consciousness in the society at large. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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