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Gateways to the West, Part I: Education in the Shaping of the West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nancy Beadie ,
Joy Williamson-Lott ,
Michael Bowman ,
Teresa Frizell ,
Gonzalo Guzman ,
Jisoo Hyun ,
Joanna Johnson ,
Kathryn Nicholas ,
Lani Phillips  and
Rebecca Wellington
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Nancy Beadie
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Washington
Joy Williamson-Lott
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Washington
Michael Bowman
Affiliation:
School of Education at Iowa State University
Gonzalo Guzman
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Washington
Jisoo Hyun
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Washington
Joanna Johnson
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Washington
Kathryn Nicholas
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Washington
Lani Phillips
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Washington
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In 1950, the Denver Catholic Register published an article describing and challenging the varieties of “prejudice” that a military pilot moving from base to base in the United States might encounter. To “successfully transact business” in the vicinity of various “metropolitan landing fields,” the writer admonished, the veteran must:

Remember to be not too sanguine about people of Oriental ethnic origin when talking with a merchant in Seattle, that he must speak about the Jew with a slight sneer in Eastern cities, that the Colored person must be “kept in his place” in Houston, that in reservation country the Indian must be treated as a man would treat a child and that in the San Antonio-Los Angeles-Denver triangle it is wiser to remember that the Mexican-American is a second-class citizen.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , August 2016 , pp. 418 - 444
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