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Item Details
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BECAUSE OF RACE
HOW AMERICANS DEBATE HARM AND OPPORTUNITY IN OUR SCHOOLS |
| By: |
Mica Pollock |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£36.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
069112535X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691125350 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 July, 2008 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
Tackles a debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. This work features arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like - and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it. It explores how debates over opportunity provision exposed conflicting analyses of opportunity denial and harm. |
| Synopsis: |
In "Because of Race", Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today - and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it. Pollock encountered these debates while working at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in 1999-2001. For more than two years, she listened to hundreds of parents, advocates, educators, and federal employees talk about the educational treatment of children and youth in specific schools and districts. People debated how children were spoken to, disciplined, and ignored in both segregated and desegregated districts, and how children were afforded or denied basic resources and opportunities to learn.Pollock discusses four rebuttals that greeted demands for everyday justice for students of color inside schools and districts. She explores how debates over daily opportunity provision exposed conflicting analyses of opportunity denial and harm worth remedying."Because of Race" lays bare our habits of argument and offers concrete suggestions for arguing more successfully toward equal opportunity. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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