Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 243 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0813532256
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0813532248
Series Statement:
The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Content:
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 observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools. Lewis explains how the curriculum, both expressed and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index
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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
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Appendix: Research Methods: Stories from the FieldNotes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813532240
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Race in the Schoolyard : Negotiating the Color Line in the Classrooms and Communities
Language:
English
