Beyond silenced voices : class, race, and gender in United States schools

Book

Beyond silenced voices : class, race, and gender in United States schools / Lois Weis, Michelle Fine, editors.

Weis, Lois. (Added Author). Fine, Michelle. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0791412857
ISBN: 9780791412855
ISBN: 0791412865
ISBN: 9780791412862
Physical Description: xi, 437 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Breaking through the barriers : African American job candidates and the academic hiring process / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, and Melvin L. Oliver -- Gifted education and the protection of privilege : breaking the silence, opening the discourse / Mara Sapon-Shevin -- Testing and minorities / Walter Haney -- Sexuality, schooling, and adolescent females : the missing discourse of desire / Michelle Fine -- Empowering minority students : a framework for intervention / Jim Cummins -- The silenced dialogue : power and pedagogy in educating other people's children / Lisa D. Delpit -- Joining the resistance : psychology, politics, girls, and women / Carol Gilligan -- Voices of resistance : young women readers of romance fiction / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Disruptions : improper masculinities and schooling / R.W. Connell -- Choices, not closets : heterosexism and homophobia in schools / Richard A. Friend.

White male working-class youth : an exploration of relative privilege and loss / Lois Weis -- Dropouts and the silencing of critical voices / Robert D. Stevenson and Jeanne Ellsworth -- Resisting racism : personal testimonies of African-American teachers / Michele Foster -- Constructing race at an urban high school : in their minds, their mouths, their hearts / Jody Cohen -- The college experience of Native Americans : a critical analysis / William G. Tierney -- Beyond the poverty of theory in race relations : nonsynchrony and social difference in education / Cameron McCarthy.