Inheriting possibility : social reproduction and quantification in education / Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon-Román, Ezekiel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects--United States.

Educational tests and measurements.

Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects.

Test bias.

United States.

Test bias--United States.

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Education.

Education--Social aspects.

Education--Parent participation--United States.

Education--Parent participation.

Home and school--United States.

Home and school.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 238 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction : enumerating difference beyond anthropocentrism

Inheriting possibility : quantum anthropologies and the forces of inheritance

Cultural studies and quantification : toward a diffractive methodology

Parenting performativities : assemblages of "difference" and the material-discursive practices of parenting

Inheriting merit : the SAT as an institutionalized measuring apparatus for social immobility

Conclusion : enfolding possibilities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dixon-Román, Ezekiel, author. Inheriting possibility

ISBN:

9781517901257

1517901251

9781517901264

151790126X

OCLC:

982091799