RESURGENCE OF ETHNIC NATIONALISM IN CALIFORNIA AND GERMANY - THE IMPACT ON RECENT PROGRESS IN EDUCATION

In a comparative study, the author examines the recent passage of Cali fornia's ''anti-illegal immigrant'' Proposition 187, and the resurgenc e of hostility toward resident ''foreigners'' in Germany, as forms of ethnic nationalism resulting in exclusionary movements directed toward Mexicans, and Turkish and other non-German groups, respectively. Hist orical analysis and data from educational ethnographic studies reveal the interrelationship of historically constructed racial or ethnic ide ology, intergroup experience, and eduction. Schools, while recent targ ets of exclusionary social movements, are still key sites for an educa tion in new ways of thinking about racial and ethnic-group relations.