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City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage
Maria Kromidas
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Description for City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage
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Cosmopolitanism—the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity—is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all. City Kids profiles fifth-graders in one of New York City’s most diverse public schools, detailing how they collectively developed a sophisticated understanding of race that challenged many of the stereotypes, myths, and commonplaces they had learned from mainstream American culture. Anthropologist Maria Kromidas spent over a year interviewing and observing these young people both inside and outside the classroom, and she vividly relates their sometimes ... Read more
Cosmopolitanism—the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity—is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all. City Kids profiles fifth-graders in one of New York City’s most diverse public schools, detailing how they collectively developed a sophisticated understanding of race that challenged many of the stereotypes, myths, and commonplaces they had learned from mainstream American culture. Anthropologist Maria Kromidas spent over a year interviewing and observing these young people both inside and outside the classroom, and she vividly relates their sometimes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813584782
SKU
V9780813584782
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About Maria Kromidas
MARIA KROMIDAS is an associate professor of anthropology at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.
Reviews for City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage
"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography."
Lauren Silver
Rutgers University, Camden
"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels"
Maryann Krikorian
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Lauren Silver
Rutgers University, Camden
"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels"
Maryann Krikorian
Teachers ... Read more