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Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for
improving one's life chances in the United States, and for children
of color, a "good education" is particularly linked to their
individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular
perception that America is in a "post-racial" epoch, opportunities
to access quality learning environments and human development
resources remain determined according to race, class, gender, and
ability. Taking a more nuanced approach to race and the
resegregation of the American school system, this volume examines
how and why the education quality for the majority of students of
color in America remains fundamentally unequal.
Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for
improving one's life chances in the United States, and for children
of color, a "good education" is particularly linked to their
individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular
perception that America is in a "post-racial" epoch, opportunities
to access quality learning environments and human development
resources remain determined according to race, class, gender, and
ability. Taking a more nuanced approach to race and the
resegregation of the American school system, this volume examines
how and why the education quality for the majority of students of
color in America remains fundamentally unequal.
This book focuses on race and ethnography, and in particular, it
addresses two significant issues. Firstly, leading thinkers and
emerging scholars in the field explicate the complicated nature of
race intersections, theories, and meanings in educational
ethnography. The ethnographic accounts consider schooling, which is
then extended to larger educational settings, bound by unique and
peculiar histories and locations. By amalgamating this selection of
papers into one issue, the book both challenges the effects of
educational histories, policies and practices, by interrogating
theories and meanings of race, and positions race and racism in
ethnography with the hope of presenting new applications and
developments in ethnographic methodologies, theories, and
practices. The volume then develops the conversation by helping to
build scholarship in understanding race meanings, intersections and
theories in educational and social sciences. With the escalating
attention given to the study of race scholarship in recent years,
there is still considerable information that scholars in the field
need to know about how ethnographers and ethnography, from diverse
comparative and international schools and educational settings,
respond to racialized and racist practices, while challenging and
developing theories about race and racism in diverse global
terrains and locations. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Ethnography and Education.
Strong Black Girls lays bare the harm Black women and girls are
expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America.
It captures the routinely muffled voices and experiences of these
students through storytelling, essays, letters, and poetry. The
authors make clear that the strength of Black women and girls
should not merely be defined as the ability to survive racism,
abuse, and violence. Readers will also see resistance and
resilience emerge through the central themes that shape these
reflective, coming-of-age narratives. Each chapter is punctuated by
discussion questions that extend the conversation around the
everyday realities of navigating K-12 schools, such as sexuality,
intergenerational influence, self-love, anger, leadership,
aesthetic trauma (hair and body image), erasure, rejection, and
unfiltered Black girlhood. Strong Black Girls is essential reading
for everyone tasked with teaching, mentoring, programming, and
policymaking for Black females in all public institutions.Book
Features: A spotlight on the invisible barriers impacting Black
girls' educational trajectories. A survey of the intersectional
notions of strength and Black femininity within the context of K-12
schooling. Narrative therapy through unpacking system stories of
oppression and triumph. Insights for building skills and tools to
make substantial and lasting change in schools.
Strong Black Girls lays bare the harm Black women and girls are
expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America.
It captures the routinely muffled voices and experiences of these
students through storytelling, essays, letters, and poetry. The
authors make clear that the strength of Black women and girls
should not merely be defined as the ability to survive racism,
abuse, and violence. Readers will also see resistance and
resilience emerge through the central themes that shape these
reflective, coming-of-age narratives. Each chapter is punctuated by
discussion questions that extend the conversation around the
everyday realities of navigating K-12 schools, such as sexuality,
intergenerational influence, self-love, anger, leadership,
aesthetic trauma (hair and body image), erasure, rejection, and
unfiltered Black girlhood. Strong Black Girls is essential reading
for everyone tasked with teaching, mentoring, programming, and
policymaking for Black females in all public institutions.Book
Features: A spotlight on the invisible barriers impacting Black
girls' educational trajectories. A survey of the intersectional
notions of strength and Black femininity within the context of K-12
schooling. Narrative therapy through unpacking system stories of
oppression and triumph. Insights for building skills and tools to
make substantial and lasting change in schools.
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