| Description |
ix, 262 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Introduction: Why I taught a high school course on race and racism -- First day: stereotypes and their consequences -- Comfort and suspicion: the historical construction of race -- "Smedley is a woman?" : students grapple with challenging texts -- Intervention in racial incidents: the question of moral symmetry -- Reflections on immigration and race: complicating the discussion of racism -- African role in slavery: morality, history, and economics -- Banneker, Walker, and Jefferson: challenging the notion of black inferiority -- Reflections on expectations and potential: different students, different needs -- Hair, skin, and pride: moral symmetry revisited -- Looking back on slavery: racial identity and moral self-concept -- N-word: boundaries and community in a multiracial classroom -- Last day: students reflect on diversity and learning -- Personal, moral, social, and civic values of integrated education and diversity -- Appendix 1: The students -- Appendix 2: Syllabus, readings, and assignments for "Race and Racism" -- Appendix 3: A note on methodology. |
| Summary |
In this book the author offers an account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students' engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives. The author a moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects on the challenges and surprises encountered in teaching; the unexpected turns in conversation, the refreshing directness of students' questions, the "aha" moments and the awkward ones, and the paradoxes of his own role as a white college professor teaching in a multiracial high school classroom. This book provides a resource for those who want to teach students to think deeply and talk productively about race. |
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Race awareness -- United States.
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Race awareness. |
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United States. |
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High school students -- United States -- Attitudes.
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High school students. |
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Race relations -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Race relations -- Study and teaching. |
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Race relations. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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| ISBN |
9781612504650 (paperback) |
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1612504655 (paperback) |
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9781612504667 (lib. edition) |
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1612504663 (lib. edition) |
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