Deculturalization and Schools

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This paper asserts that it is the practice of public schools in America to try to "Americanize" African-American and minority students so that these students become alienated from their own cultures. It argues that even though laws prohibiting segregation were passed, de facto segregation still goes on in schools because of policies of deculturalization.

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"Deculturalization is the direct offshoot of segregation process that had for many years plagued the American schooling system. While some critics may argue that American schools are no longer segregated and thus there is no longer any racial issue to address, we must make it clear that education system in United States still favors the white culture so much so that African-American and other minority students are regularly subjected to rectification process that is meant to detach them from their own culture and make them more Americanized."

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