Name: Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities, Paperback/Patricia Hill Collins
Brand: Beacon Press
Price: 191.99 RON
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An ambitious book on how schools, race, and the media intertwine in the twenty-first century Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins opens this brilliant new book on race and education by describing how in her senior year at the Philadelphia High School for girls, near the end of a public school education that "had almost silenced me," she was invited to deliver a graduation address on the meaning of the American flag. She refused to deliver the censored version her teacher demanded, and someone else took her place on stage. Another Kind of Public Education spins the threads of that story--the way education, race, and democracy are intertwined; the way racism and resistance work through a variety of unspoken means; what schools do to limit or to open up possibilities--into a call for "another kind of public education," one that helps us "envision new democratic possibilities." Collins begins, in a tour de force of social analysis with practical implications, by demystifying what she calls "racism as a system of power." She argues that the generation coming of age at the turn of the twenty-first century--in a post-civil-rights society that publicly claims to be "color-blind"--needs a new language for analyzing the new "color-blind racism" of contemporary society that has stymied efforts to live up to the promise of American democracy. She shows us how racism as a system of power works in four distinct yet intertwined domains--structural, disciplinary, cultural, and interpersonal. Dr