Uncommon Schools: The Global Rise of Postsecondary Institutions for Indigenous Peoples

286 Pages·2011·3.107 MB·English

by  Wade Cole

Uncommon SchoolS

U ncommon SchoolS
The Global Rise of Postsecondary Institutions
for Indigenous Peoples
Wade m. cole
Stanford University Press
Stanford, california
Stanford University Press
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cole, Wade (Wade m.) author.
Uncommon schools : the global rise of postsecondary institutions for
indigenous peoples / Wade m. cole.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBn 978-0-8047-7210-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Indigenous peoples—Education (higher)—cross-cultural studies.
2. Indigenous peoples—legal status, laws, etc.—cross-cultural studies.
3. Indigenous peoples—Government relations—cross-cultural studies.
4. higher education and state—cross-cultural studies. I. Title.
lc3727.c54 2011
378.1'9829—dc22
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Typeset by Thompson Type in 10.5/15 Adobe Garamond Pro
To Karen,
for setting me on this path,
and Johanna,
for taking it with me

conTE nTS
List of Tables ix
List of Figures xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
A Note on Terminology xv
Preface and Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
part 1 global analysis 21
1 World Polity Transformations and the
Status of Indigenous Peoples 23
2 Indigenous Education in Global and
Historical Perspective 49
part ii cross-national analysis 77
3 Indigenous–State Relations in Comparative Perspective 79
4 The Emergence of Indigenous Postsecondary Institutions 116
viii contents
part iii organizational analysis 153
5 Minority-Serving Colleges in the United States 155
6 Ethnocentric Curricula and the Politics of Difference 179
Conclusion: Summary, Challenges, and the
Future of Indigenous Postsecondary Institutions 205
Appendix 219
Notes 221
References 229
Index 251
lIST of TABlES
1.1 Justifying colonization during the statist era 34
3.1 Cross-national differences in the political incorporation
of indigenous peoples 109
4.1 Indigenous population statistics, ca. 2000 130
4.2 Cross-national diversity in postsecondary institutional forms 139
4.3 Patterns in the emergence of indigenous postsecondary
institutions 142
5.1 Inversion of African American and American Indian
incorporation logics, pre– and post–civil rights movement 165
5.2 Tuition costs, Salish Kootenai College, 2002–03 174
6.1 Negative binomial regression analyses of the number
of ethnocentric courses, 1992 and 2002 196