By Zeus Leonardo
In the colorblind period of Post-Civil Rights the United States, race is usually wrongly regarded as beside the point or, at most sensible, an issue of racist participants instead of a systemic to be faced. Race, Whiteness, and Education interrupts this risky assumption by way of reaffirming a severe appreciation of the significant function that race and racism nonetheless play in faculties and society. Author Zeus Leonardo’s conceptual engagement of race and whiteness asks questions about its origins, its upkeep, and envisages its destiny. This ebook doesn't easily rehearse exhausted rules at the courting between race, type, and schooling, yet as a substitute deals new methods of knowing how a number of social kinfolk have interaction with each other and in their influence in wondering a extra real experience of multiculturalism. through asking basic questions on whiteness in colleges and society, Race, Whiteness, and schooling is going to the guts of race kin and the commonsense understandings that maintain it, hence portray a clearer photograph of the altering face of racism.
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