Dewey and the Dilemma of Race

Traces how John Dewey, like most of his contemporaries, struggled with the major dilemma of how to reconcile evolution, pedagogy, democracy, and race. The author seeks to capture Dewey's original meaning by placing him in his own intellectual and cultural context. Dewey and the Dilemma of Race is the first comprehensive intellectual biography to trace the development of Dewey's educational views.