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Colormute : Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School /

"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 res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pollock, Mica, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • We don't belong to simple race groups, but we do
  • Race doesn't matter, but it does
  • The de-raced words we use when discussing plans for racial equality can actually keep us from discussing ways to make opportunities racially equal
  • The more complex inequality seems to get, the more simplistic inequality analysis seems to become
  • The questions we ask most about race are the very questions we most suppress
  • Although talking in racial terms can make race matter, not talking in racial terms can make race matter too
  • Moving forward
  • Practically speaking: words for educators in particular.