Authors: Lois Weis, Michelle Fine (Editor), Michelle Fine
ISBN-13: 9780791464625, ISBN-10: 0791464628
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Resting on the belief that educators must be at the center of informing education policy, the contributors to this revised edition of the classic text raise tough questions that will both haunt and invigorate pre and inservice educators. They explore the policies and practices of structuring exclusions; they listen hard to youth living at the margins of race, class, ethnicity, and gender; and they wrestle with fundamental inequalities of space in order to educate for change. Written from the perspective of researchers, policy analysts, teachers, and youth workers, the book reveals a shared belief in education that "could be," and a shared concern about schools that currently reproduce class, race and gender relations, and privilege.
Author Biography: Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Michelle Fine is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Together they have edited many books, including Working Method: Research and Social Justice and (with Linda Powell and L. Mun Wong) Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society.
Introduction | ||
1 | Segregation 50 years after Brown : a metropolitan change | 3 |
2 | The education pipeline in the United States, 1970-2000 : trends in attrition, retention, and graduation rates | 21 |
3 | Reform as redefining the spaces of schools : an examination of detracking by choice | 47 |
4 | Hollowing the promise of higher education : inside the political economy of access to college | 63 |
5 | Subtractive schooling, caring relations, and social capital in the schooling of U.S.-Mexican youth | 83 |
6 | The ideology of "fag" : the school experience of gay students | 95 |
7 | Race, suburban resentment, and the representation of the inner city in contemporary film and television | 117 |
8 | Learning about race, learning about "America" : Hmong American high school students | 133 |
9 | In the bad or good of girlhood : social class, schooling, and white femininities | 147 |
10 | The culture of black femininity and school success | 163 |
11 | Speech and silence : an analysis of the cultural practice of talking | 181 |
12 | Global politics, dissent, and Palestinian American identities : engaging conflict to reinvigorate democratic education | 199 |
13 | Risky business : teaching about the confederate flag controversy in a South Carolina high school | 217 |
14 | Popular culture, pedagogy, and urban youth : beyond silenced voices | 233 |
15 | The alchemy of integrated spaces : youth participation in research collectives of difference | 251 |