Stubborn roots : race, culture, and inequality in U.S. and South African schools / Prudence L. Carter.

The author shows how school communities can better incorporate previously disadvantaged groups and engender equity by addressing socio-cultural contexts and promoting 'cultural flexibility'. She also raises timely questions about the social, political, and philosophical purposes of multira...

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Main Author: Carter, Prudence L.
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Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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505 0 |a Distinctions and convergences: a brief history of race and education in the United States and South Africa -- Selecting "good" schools in the U.S. and South Africa -- Paradoxes of opportunity: resources, boundaries, and organizational-racial habitus -- Student cultural flexibility: the (un) making of multicultural navigators -- The more things change, the more threatening they feel: white youths' attitudes on equity -- Equity and empathy: growing equality of opportunity -- Stubborn roots: weeding out educational inequality. 
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