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Stubborn roots : race, culture, and inequality in U.S. and South African schools / Prudence L. Carter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Prudence L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--United States--Case studies.
- Educational equalization.
- Educational equalization--South Africa--Case studies.
- Discrimination in education--United States--Case studies.
- Discrimination in education.
- Discrimination in education--South Africa--Case studies.
- Multiculturalism--United States--Case studies.
- Multiculturalism.
- Multiculturalism--South Africa--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What are the features of the school environment that make students' of color incorporation greater at some schools than at others? Prudence L. Carter seeks to answer this basic but bedeviling question through a rich comparative analysis of the organizational and group dynamics in eight schools located within four cities in the United States and South Africa-two nations rebounding from centuries of overt practices of racial and social inequality. Stubborn Roots provides insight into how school communities can better incorporate previously disadvantaged groups and engender equity by addressing s
- Contents:
- Distinctions and convergences: a brief history of race and education in the United States and South Africa
- Selecting "good" schools in the U.S. and South Africa
- Paradoxes of opportunity: resources, boundaries, and organizational-racial habitus
- Student cultural flexibility: the (un) making of multicultural navigators
- The more things change, the more threatening they feel: white youths' attitudes on equity
- Equity and empathy: growing equality of opportunity
- Stubborn roots: weeding out educational inequality.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 26, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-989965-7
- 9786613625489
- 0-19-989964-9
- 1-280-59565-5
- OCLC:
- 794003353
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