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Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School
Mica Pollock
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Description for Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School
Paperback. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, this book draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. It discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an anthropologist, it discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. Pollock illustrates the wide variations in the way speakers use race labels. Sometimes ... Read more
This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an anthropologist, it discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. Pollock illustrates the wide variations in the way speakers use race labels. Sometimes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691123950
SKU
V9780691123950
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About Mica Pollock
Mica Pollock is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She previously also worked in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
Reviews for Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School
Winner of the 2005 Critics' Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association "Pollock attacks the topic with strength, providing a clear, compelling, and well-written argument. She helps readers cultivate greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of daily race talk. A necessary and important work in fostering ongoing conversations about ... Read more