Taking It Personally : Racism In Classroom From Kinderg To College

When Sekani Moyenda, an African American elementary school teacher, accepted an invitation to speak at a graduate education class, neither the students nor Ann Berlak, their professor, could guess that her presentation would spark an outpouring of emotion and a reexamination of race from everyone in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berlack, Ann
Other Authors: Berlak, Ann, Moyenda, Sekani
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racism.
Multicultural education.
Discrimination in education.
EDUCATION > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Racisme > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Éducation interculturelle > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Discrimination en education > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Racism > United States > Case studies.
Multicultural education > United States > Case studies.
Discrimination in education > United States > Case studies.
United States.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:When Sekani Moyenda, an African American elementary school teacher, accepted an invitation to speak at a graduate education class, neither the students nor Ann Berlak, their professor, could guess that her presentation would spark an outpouring of emotion and a reexamination of race from everyone involved. The "encounter"--As it was called -- was an expression of Moyenda's anger at the institutionalized racism of our educational system, a system whose foundations are reinforced and whose assumptions about race are reproduced in the graduate school classroom. Forcing everyone involve.
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9781592137817

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