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Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools
Mica Pollock
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Description for Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools
Paperback. Tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. This title 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. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNKP; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691148090
SKU
V9780691148090
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About Mica Pollock
Mica Pollock is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of "Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School" (Princeton) and the editor of "Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School" (New Press).
Reviews for Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools
"[This book] challenges assertions that discrimination against minority children isn't provable, shouldn't be discussed, or can't be fixed."
Education Week "Because of Race ... explores how everyday interactions produce racial disparities in schools... Pollock argues that Americans have entered a 'new civil rights era,' ... [and] ends her book with a passionate call for the pursuit of everyday justice."
Joe Soss, Perspectives ... Read more
Education Week "Because of Race ... explores how everyday interactions produce racial disparities in schools... Pollock argues that Americans have entered a 'new civil rights era,' ... [and] ends her book with a passionate call for the pursuit of everyday justice."
Joe Soss, Perspectives ... Read more