Book Series

Critical Social Thought

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Controversy in the Classroom

The Democratic Power of Discussion

By Diana E. Hess

In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators…

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March 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96229-2 (Routledge)

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Race, Whiteness, and Education

By Zeus Leonardo

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…

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March 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99317-3 (Routledge)

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Advocacy Leadership

Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education

By Gary L. Anderson

In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for…

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March 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99428-6 (Routledge)

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Critical Perspectives on bell hooks

Edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, George Yancy

Although bell hooks has long challenged the dominant paradigms of race, class, and gender, there has never been a comprehensive book critically reflecting upon this…

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February 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-98981-7 (Routledge)

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Hidden Markets

The New Education Privatization

By Patricia Burch

Across the U.S., test publishers, software companies, and research firms are swarming to take advantage of the revenues made available by the No Child Left…

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January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95567-6 (Routledge)

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Black Literate Lives

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

By Maisha T. Fisher

Black Literate Lives offers an innovative approach to understanding the complex and multi-dimensional perspectives of Black literate lives in the United States. Author Maisha Fisher…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95865-3 (Routledge)

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Unequal By Design

High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

By Wayne Au

Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99071-4 (Routledge)

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Racial Formation in the New Millennium

By Micheal Omi, Howard Winant

First published in 1986, and then again in 1994, Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States is considered a classic text on race…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95025-1 (Routledge)

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Rightist Multiculturalism

Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform

By Kristen L. Buras

For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96265-0 (Routledge)

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Market Movements

African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform

By Thomas C. Pedroni

Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as a…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95609-3 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberal Urbanism, Race, and the Right to the City
By Pauline Lipman
To be published August 1st 2010