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An Unexpected Minority. White Kids in an Urban School.
Edward Morris
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Description for An Unexpected Minority. White Kids in an Urban School.
Paperback. Explores attitudes about white identity in a Texas middle school, composed predominantly of African Americans, Latinos, and Asians. Based on his ethnographic research, the author argues that lower-income white students in urban schools do not necessarily maintain the sort of white privilege documented in other settings. Num Pages: 192 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; JFSL; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.
Racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States have been growing rapidly in recent decades. Projections based on census data indicate that, in coming years, white people will statistically dominate noticeably fewer regions and public spaces. How will this reversal of minority status affect ideas about race? In spaces dominated by people of color, will attitudes about white privilege change? Or, will deeply rooted beliefs about racial inequality be resilient to numerical shifts in strength?
In An Unexpected Minority, sociologist Edward Morris addresses these far-reaching questions by exploring attitudes about white identity in a Texas middle school ... Read more
Racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States have been growing rapidly in recent decades. Projections based on census data indicate that, in coming years, white people will statistically dominate noticeably fewer regions and public spaces. How will this reversal of minority status affect ideas about race? In spaces dominated by people of color, will attitudes about white privilege change? Or, will deeply rooted beliefs about racial inequality be resilient to numerical shifts in strength?
In An Unexpected Minority, sociologist Edward Morris addresses these far-reaching questions by exploring attitudes about white identity in a Texas middle school ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813537214
SKU
V9780813537214
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About Edward Morris
Edward Morris is an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio University in Athens.
Reviews for An Unexpected Minority. White Kids in an Urban School.
An Unexpected Minority is a thoughtful and engaged story of how race gets lived and negotiated in school. The book illuminates the persistent benefits of whiteness for white students, even in a setting where they are a numerical minority and also highlights the struggle for these same students to carve out a place for themselves in a setting where they ... Read more