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Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School

by Mica Pollock
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Overview

Leading experts offer concrete and realistic strategies for dealing with race in schools in a groundbreaking book that should become required reading for every teacher in the country.

Which acts by educators are "racist" and which are "antiracist"? How can an educator constructively discuss complex issues of race with students and colleagues? In Everyday Antiracism leading educators deal with the most challenging questions about race in school, offering invaluable and effective advice.

Contributors including Beverly Daniel Tatum, Sonia Nieto, and Pedro Noguera describe concrete ways to analyze classroom interactions that may or may not be "racial," deal with racial inequality and "diversity," and teach to high standards across racial lines. Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the "n-word" to valuing students' home worlds, dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children. Questions following each essay prompt readers to examine and discuss everyday issues of race and opportunity in their own classrooms and schools.

For educators and parents determined to move beyond frustrations about race, Everyday Antiracism is an essential tool.

Β• Contributors include:
Β• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Β• Prudence Carter
Β• Thea Abu El-Haj
Β• Ron Ferguson
Β• Patricia Gandara
Β• Ian Haney LΓ³pez
Β• Vivian Louie
Β• Maria Ong
Β• Paul Ongtooguk
Β• Christine Sleeter
Β• Angela Valenzuela

Synopsis

Leading experts offer concrete and realistic strategies for dealing with race in schools in a groundbreaking book that should become required reading for every teacher in the country.

Which acts by educators are "racist" and which are "antiracist"? How can an educator constructively discuss complex issues of race with students and colleagues? In Everyday Antiracism leading educators deal with the most challenging questions about race in school, offering invaluable and effective advice.

Contributors including Beverly Daniel Tatum, Sonia Nieto, and Pedro Noguera describe concrete ways to analyze classroom interactions that may or may not be "racial," deal with racial inequality and "diversity," and teach to high standards across racial lines. Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the "n-word" to valuing students' home worlds, dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children. Questions following each essay prompt readers to examine and discuss everyday issues of race and opportunity in their own classrooms and schools.

For educators and parents determined to move beyond frustrations about race, Everyday Antiracism is an essential tool.

• Contributors include:
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Prudence Carter
• Thea Abu El-Haj
• Ron Ferguson
• Patricia Gandara
• Ian Haney López
• Vivian Louie
• Maria Ong
• Paul Ongtooguk
• Christine Sleeter
• Angela Valenzuela

About the Author, Mica Pollock

Mica Pollock is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An anthropologist of education, she previously taught tenth grade and worked in the civil rights field. She is the author of Colormute and Because of Race. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Book Details

Published
June 1, 2008
Publisher
New Press, The
Pages
389
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781595580542

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