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High schools, race, and America's future : what students can teach us about morality, diversity, and community
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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' eng...
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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- Creator
- Lawrence Blum
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781612504650, 1612504655, 9781612504667, 1612504663
- OCLC
- ocn810289599
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Introduction: Why I taught a high school course on race and racism -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The N-word: boundaries and community in a multiracial classroom -- The last day: students reflect on diversity and learning -- The 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