A Moment in the Making of U.S. Race Relations - An Ethnography of Desegregating and Urban Elementary School (Paperback)

In the fall of 1975 through the spring of 1977, as Grandin, an urban, public school in North Carolina, was desegregating, anthropologists Dorothy Holland, Margaret Eisenhart, Joe Harding, and Michael Livesay carried out an ethnographic study of the fifth and sixth grade classes. Their purpose was to understand how the students, teachers, administrators, parents, and other community members dealt with the requirement to desegregate their school. Originally published in 1978, their research relied on close-up methods that highlighted the interactional, cultural, and institutional processes of making race and race relations in the school. The book used the term ""social race"" to emphasize that race is a process. In today's expanded terminology, persons are raced (identified as racial) in social interactions and representations through positioning and discourse. Similarly race relations are made in day-to-day processes of interaction and meaning making. As a specific historical case, the context at Grandin cannot be generalized to contemporary educational settings. Much about public schools has changed since the 1970s. Nonetheless, forty years later, the barriers to more positive race relations are strikingly similar: fraught interactions across differences in interpersonal styles; symbolic encounters that mean different things to different groups; provocative, hurtful terminologies; a veneer of harmony that masks serious difficulties with conflict resolution; and a virtual lack of opportunity and skills for frank discussions about experiences of racism.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1978
Authors:	Dorothy C Holland • Margaret Eisenhart • Joe R. Harding • J. Michael Livesay
Dimensions:	279 x 216mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-4943-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > History > History of other lands
LSN:	1-4696-4943-8
Barcode:	9781469649436

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