Sarah Steinbock-Pratt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama.

Introduction; 1. Creating a catalog of colonial knowledge; 2. A civil empire: determining fitness for colonial education; 3. Professionals and pioneers: teachers' self-depiction in empire; 4. Recreating race: evolving notions of whiteness and blackness in empire; 5. A political education: Americans, Filipinos, and the meanings of instruction; 6. All politics is local: American teachers and their communities; 7. Speaking for ourselves: dignity and the politics of student protest; Epilogue.