Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, And Gender In United State Schools

by Weis, Lois

• ISBN13: 9780791464618
• ISBN10: 079146461X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PRESS

Summary

Resting on the belief that educators must be at the center of informing education policy, the contributors to this revised edition of the classic text raise tough questions that will both haunt and invigorate pre- and inservice educators. They explore the policies and practices of structuring exclusions; they listen hard to youth living at the margins of race, class, ethnicity, and gender; and they wrestle with fundamental inequalities of space in order to educate for change. Written from the perspective of researchers, policy analysts, teachers, and youth workers, the book reveals a shared belief in education the "could be," and a shared concern about schools that currently reproduce class, race and gender relations, and privilege.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Michelle Fine and Lois Weis
SECTION ONE STRUCTURING EXCLUSIONS: EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, POLITICS, AND PRACTICES
1 Segregation 50 Years after Brown: A Metropolitan Change	3	(18)
Gary Orfield and Chungmei Lee
2 The Education Pipeline in the United States, 1970-2000: Trends in Attrition, Retention, and Graduation Rates	21	(26)
Walter Haney, Lisa Abrams, George Madaus, Anne Wheelock, Jing Miao and Ileana M. Gruia
3 Reform as Redefining the Spaces of Schools: An Examination of Detracking by Choice	47	(16)
Susan Yonezawa and Amy Stuart Wells
4 Hollowing the Promise of Higher Education: Inside the Political Economy of Access to College	63	(20)
Janice L. Bloom
5 Subtractive Schooling, Caring Relations, and Social Capital in the Schooling of U.S.-Mexican Youth	83	(12)
Angela Valenzuela
6 The Ideology of "Fag": The School Experience of Gay Students	95	(22)
George W. Smith
(completed for publication by Dorothy E. Smith)
SECTION TWO LISTENING HARD: SILENCE AND DISSENT
7 Race, Suburban Resentment, and the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and Television	117	(16)
Cameron McCarthy, Alicia Rodriguez, Shuaib Meecham, Stephen David, Carrie Wilson-Brown, Heriberto Godina, K.E. Supryia, and Ed Buendia
8 Learning about Race, Learning about "America": Hmong American High School Students	133	(14)
Stacey J. Lee
9 In the Bad or Good of Girlhood: Social Class, Schooling, and White Femininities	147	(16)
Lyn Mikel Brown
10 The Culture of Black Femininity and School Success	163	(18)
Carla O'Connor, R. L'Heureux Lewis, and Jennifer Mueller
11 Speech and Silence: An Analysis of the Cultural Practice of Talking	181	(18)
Heejung S. Kim and Hazel Rose Markus
SECTION THREE EDUCATING FOR CHANGE
12 Global Politics, Dissent, and Palestinian American Identities: Engaging Conflict to Reinvigorate Democratic Education	199	(18)
Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
13 Risky Business: Teaching about the Confederate Flag Controversy in a South Carolina High School	217	(16)
Dennis Carlson and Susan L. Schramm-Pate, with Richard R. Lussier
14 Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Urban Youth: Beyond Silenced Voices	233	(18)
Greg Dimitriadis
15 The Alchemy of Integrated Spaces: Youth Participation in Research Collectives of Difference	251	(16)
Mariá Elena Torre
Notes	267	(12)
References	279	(30)
Contributors	309	(6)
Index	315