Race in the Schoolyard : Negotiating the Color Line in the Classrooms and Communities.

Race in the Schoolyard : Negotiating the Color Line in the Classrooms and Communities.

Could your kids be learning a fourth R at school: reading, writing, 'rithmatic, and race? Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action?our children?s classrooms? and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year obs...

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Main Author: Lewis, Amanda E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Students > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Discrimination in education > United States.
Discrimination in education
Race relations
Students > Social conditions
United States > Race relations.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Examining the Color Line in Schools; Chapter 2: There Is No Race in the Schoolyard: Color-Blind Ideology at Foresthills; Chapter 3: Struggling with Dangerous Subjects: Race at West City Elementary; Chapter 4: Breaking the Silence: Race, Culture, Language, and Power at Metro2; Chapter 5: Learning and Living Racial Boundaries: Constructing and Negotiating Racial Identity in School; Chapter 6: Schooling and the Social Reproduction of Racial Inequality; Chapter 7: Schools as Race-Making Institutions.
  • Appendix: Research Methods: Stories from the FieldNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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