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Title: | 'The color of the pupils': schooling and race in Senegal's cities, 1900-10 |
Author: | Bryant, Kelly Duke |
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] |