Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools, Revised Edition

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Lois Weis, Michelle Fine
State University of New York Press, Mar 10, 2005 - Education - 344 pages
Winner of the 2006 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association

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 in-service educators, as well as veteran teachers. 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.
 

Contents

A Metropolitan Challenge
3
Trends in Attrition Retentionand Graduation Rates
21
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 USMexican Youth
83
The School Experience of Gay Students
95
7 Race Suburban Resentmentand the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and Television
117
Hmong American High School Students
133
References
279
Contributors
309
Index
315
C
316
E
318
G
319
I
320
J
321

Social Class Schooling and White Femininities
147
10The Culture of Black Femininity and School Success
163
An Analysis of the Cultural Practice of Talking1
181
12Global Politics Dissent and Palestinian American Identities Engaging Conflict to Reinvigorate Democratic Education
199
Teaching about theConfederate Flag Controversy in a South Carolina High School
217
14Popular Culture Pedagogyand Urban Youth Beyond Silenced Voices
233
Youth Participation in Research Collectives of Difference
251
Notes
267
N
322
O
323
Q
324
S
325
T
328
U
329
Y
330
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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 written and edited many books, including Working Method: Research and Social Justice and (with Linda Powell Pruitt and April Burns) Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance.

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