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Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis Hardback - 2006 - 1st Edition

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Author: Staiger, Annegret Daniela
ISBN: 9780804753159

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An examination of the role that race plays in the lives of students at a multiracial U.S. high school.

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This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives of students. At a school publicly celebrated for its integration, academic excellence, and racial harmony, the reality is a different story: that of continuing internal segregation and racial conflicts.
Examining the role of race in neighborhood relations, desegregation programs, and school violence, the author uncovers competing racial orders. A gifted magnet program reinforces the notion that being white means being gifted. Conflicts in the schoolyard show a racial bipolarization where Cambodian Americans identify as blacks and Latinos as whites. Applying racial formation theory to ethnographic research, this study reveals how a school racializes its students. But students are not just passive victims of such structural forces. They also creatively shape the way in which race is organized, imagined, and experienced.

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Title Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis
Author Annegret Daniela Staiger
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Stanford University Press
Publication date 2006-11-13
ISBN 9780804753159 / 0804753156
Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
Dimensions 9.33 x 5.94 x 0.72 in (23.70 x 15.09 x 1.83 cm)
Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
Category Sociology
Library of Congress subjects Race awareness in adolescence - California, Identity (Psychology) in youth - California
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006009402
Dewey Decimal Code 305.235

About the author

Annegret Daniela Staiger is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Clarkson University.

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