1st Edition

Race, Whiteness, and Education

By Zeus Leonardo Copyright 2009
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

In the colorblind era of Post-Civil Rights America, race is often wrongly thought to be irrelevant or, at best, a problem of racist individuals rather than a systemic condition to be confronted.   Race, Whiteness, and Education interrupts this dangerous assumption by reaffirming a critical appreciation of the central role that race and racism still play in schools and society.  Author... Read more

Series Editor Introduction, Michael W. Apple

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Critical Social Theory: An Introduction

2. Ideology and Race Relations in Post-Civil Rights America

3. Marxism and Race Analysis: Toward a Synthesis

4. Futuring Race: From Race to Post-race Theory

5. The Color of Supremacy

6. The Ontology of Whiteness

7. The Myth of White Ignorance

8. Race and the War on Schools in an Era of Accountability

9. Race, Class, and Imagining the Urban, Zeus Leonardo and Margaret Hunter

10. The Souls of White Folk

References

Biography

Zeus Leonardo is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education, at the  Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.

"The author boldly addressed an issue that most people wish to ignore …[Leonardo] succeeded in beginning a fresh discourse on race by asking hard questions while presenting an even more difficult reality accompanied with possible solutions."–Education Review, March 2010

"Leonardo’s major contribution…is his fresh analysis of race and race theory. He offers an in-depth analysis of race and critical theories and makes laudable efforts to broaden them and, when possible, to interrogate and reconcile competing ideas.…The book is an excellent demonstration of how CST can be used in analyses of race and a valuable asset for social theorists and educators."--Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2010, 39: 318-319