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Race Among Friends - Exploring Race at a Suburban School (Hardcover)
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Race Among Friends - Exploring Race at a Suburban School (Hardcover)
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America
had moved past the issue of race, that a colorblind society was
finally within reach. But as Marianne Modica reveals in Race Among
Friends, attempts to be colorblind do not end racism-in fact,
ignoring race increases the likelihood that racism will occur in
our schools and in society. This intriguing volume focuses on a
"racially friendly" suburban charter school called Excellence
Academy, highlighting the ways that students and teachers think
about race and act out racial identity. Modica finds that even in
an environment where students of all racial backgrounds work and
play together harmoniously, race affects the daily experiences of
students and teachers in profound but unexamined ways. Some
teachers, she notes, feared that talking about race in the
classroom would open them to charges of racism, so they avoided the
topic. And rather than generate honest and constructive
conversations about race, student friendships opened the door for
insensitive racial comments by whites, resentment and silence by
blacks, and racially biased administrative practices. In the end,
the school's friendly environment did not promote-and may have
hindered-serious discussion of race and racial inequity. The desire
to ignore race in favor of a "colorblind society," Modica writes,
has become an entrenched part of American culture. But as Race
Among Friends shows, when race becomes a taboo subject, it has
serious ramifications for students and teachers of all ethnic
origins.
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