Mica Pollock: 3 books
Because of Race
How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race...
Schooltalk
Rethinking What We Say About-and To-Students Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
An essential guide to transforming the quotidian communications that feed inequality in our schools—from the award-winning editor of Everyday Antiracism
Words matter. Every day in schools, language is used—whether in the classroom, in a student-teacher meeting, or by principals, guidance...
Colormute
Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research...