Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities

Contents

vii List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi One Examining the Color Line in Schools 1 Two There Is No Race in the Schoolyard: Color-Blind Ideology at Foresthills 12 Three Struggling with Dangerous Subjects: Race at West City Elementary 39 Four Breaking the Silence: Race, Culture, Language, and Power at Metro2 87 Five Learning and Living Racial Boundaries: Constructing and Negotiating Racial Identity in School 128 Six Schooling and the Social Reproduction of Racial Inequality 154 Seven Schools as Race-Making Institutions 188 Appendix Research Methods: Stories from the Field 197 Notes 211 Bibliography 221 Index 235 Contents ...