Race and Gender in the Classroom explores the paradoxes of
education, race, and gender, as Laurie Cooper Stoll follows
eighteen teachers carrying out their roles as educators in an era
of "post-racial" and "post-gendered" politics. Because there are a
number of contentious issues converging simultaneously in these
teachers' everyday lives, this is a book comprised of several
interrelated stories. On the one hand, this is a story about
teachers who care deeply about their students but are generally
oblivious to the ways in which their words and behaviors reinforce
dominant narratives about race and gender, constructing for their
students a worldview in which race and gender do not matter despite
their students' lived experiences demonstrating otherwise. This is
a story about dedicated, overworked teachers who are trying to keep
their heads above water while meeting the myriad demands placed
upon them in a climate of high-stakes testing. This is a story
about the disconnect between those who mandate educational policy
like superintendents and school boards and the teachers who are
expected to implement those policies often with little or no input
and few resources. This is ultimately a story, however, about how
the institution of education itself operates in a "post-racial" and
"post-gendered" society.
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