Rethinking racism : emotion, persuasion, and literacy education in an all-white high school / Jennifer Seibel Trainor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trainor, Jennifer S., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in education--United States--Case studies.

Racism in education.

Multicultural education--United States--Case studies.

Multicultural education.

Anti-racism.

United States.

Anti-racism--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 159 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2008]

Summary:

In this groundbreaking work, Jennifer Seibel Trainor proposes a new understanding of the roots of racism, one that is based on attention to emotion and its relationship to a hidden curriculum of race promoted by common classroom practices.

Telling the story of a year spent in an all-white high school, Trainor suggests that contrary to prevailing opinion, racism often does not stem from ignorance, a lack of exposure to other cultures, or the desire to protect white privilege. Rather, the causes of racism are frequently found in the realms of emotion and language, as opposed to rational calculations of privilege or political ideologies. Trainor maintains that racist assertions often originate not from prejudiced attitudes or beliefs but from metaphorical connections between racist ideas and nonracist values. These values are reinforced, even promoted by schooling via "emotioned rules" in place in classrooms: in tacit, unexamined lessons, rituals, and practices that exert a powerful-though largely unacknowledged-persuasive force on student feelings and beliefs about race.

Contents:

Racism, persuasion, and emotion: reflections on then and now

Class beginnings: September and October

Emotioned rules taught in school and the persuasive power of racism: November and December

When to break the rules: February, March, and April

Beyond white privilege: June at Laurel Canyons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index.

ISBN:

0809328739

9780809328734

OCLC:

213599135