Book Series
Critical Social Thought
New & Published Titles:
Controversy in the Classroom
The Democratic Power of Discussion
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…
read moreMarch 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96229-2 (Routledge)
Race, Whiteness, and Education
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…
read moreMarch 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99317-3 (Routledge)
Advocacy Leadership
Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education
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…
read moreMarch 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99428-6 (Routledge)
Critical Perspectives on bell hooks
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…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-98981-7 (Routledge)
Hidden Markets
The New Education Privatization
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… read moreJanuary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95567-6 (Routledge)
Black Literate Lives
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95865-3 (Routledge)
Unequal By Design
High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality
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…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99071-4 (Routledge)
Racial Formation in the New Millennium
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… read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95025-1 (Routledge)
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Rightist Multiculturalism
Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform
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…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96265-0 (Routledge)
Market Movements
African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials,…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95609-3 (Routledge)
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