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Rethinking Racism: Emotion, Persuasion, and Literacy Education in an All-White High School
Jennifer Seibel Trainor
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Paperback. Proposes an understanding of the roots of racism, one that is based on attention to the role of emotion and the dynamics of persuasion. This ethnographic study argues against previous assumptions about racism, demonstrating how rhetoric and emotion, as well as the processes and culture of schools, are involved in the formation of racist beliefs. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
This title offers a new model for understanding the origins of racism. In ""Rethinking Racism: Emotion, Persuasion, and Literacy Education in an All-White High School"", Jennifer Seibel Trainor proposes a new understanding of the roots of racism, one that is based on attention to the role of emotion and the dynamics of persuasion. This one-year ethnographic study argues against previous assumptions about racism, demonstrating instead how rhetoric and emotion, as well as the processes and culture of schools, are involved in the formation of racist beliefs.Telling the story of a year spent in an all-white high school, Trainor suggests that ... Read more
This title offers a new model for understanding the origins of racism. In ""Rethinking Racism: Emotion, Persuasion, and Literacy Education in an All-White High School"", Jennifer Seibel Trainor proposes a new understanding of the roots of racism, one that is based on attention to the role of emotion and the dynamics of persuasion. This one-year ethnographic study argues against previous assumptions about racism, demonstrating instead how rhetoric and emotion, as well as the processes and culture of schools, are involved in the formation of racist beliefs.Telling the story of a year spent in an all-white high school, Trainor suggests that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809328734
SKU
V9780809328734
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About Jennifer Seibel Trainor
Jennifer Seibel Trainor is an associate professor in the graduate program in composition studies at San Francisco State University. Her research on racism, whiteness, and literacy has been published in CCC, as well as in Research in the Teaching of English.
Reviews for Rethinking Racism: Emotion, Persuasion, and Literacy Education in an All-White High School
"Rethinking Racism surprises, amazes, and indeed teaches, most of all how to read culture, not as some flattened and easily indexed set of categories, but as something as complex and necessarily elusive as humans themselves." - Catherine Prendergast, author of Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v Board of Education"