Full Description
The roles of race and racism in explaining current controversies related to public schools in America is both understudied and misunderstood. Part of the problem is the absence of a critical paradigm that facilitates the development and application of ideas, theories, and methods that do not fit within the confines of mainstream scholarship. Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical demography necessitates explicit discussions and examinations of the nature of power and how it perpetuates the existing social order. Hence, in the case of race in education, it is imperative that racism is central to the analysis. Racism elucidates that which often goes ignored or unexplained by conventional scholars. Consequently, the critical demography paradigm fills an important void in the study of public education in American schools.
Contents
Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgements
PART I: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN PERSPECTIVE
Introduction: Critical Demography: Paradigm for the Post-Racial Era
By Hayward Derrick Horton, Lori Latrice Martin, and Kenneth Fasching-Varner
Chapter 1
Seventeen Years Later: Revisiting the Critical Demography Paradigm to Examine Public Education in American Schools
By Geoffrey L. Wood
Chapter 2
The Educational Plight of Black Men and Boys in Baton Rouge: A Critical Demography Perspective
By Danielle Thomas, Derrick Lathan, Ashley Maryland, and Lori Latrice Martin
PART II: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND K-12
Chapter 3
Detours to Destruction: A Critical Demography Perspective on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
By Julia M.F. Schwartz, Nikisha Kelly, and Kimberly R. James
Chapter 4
School Uniforms, Elementary Students—"Docile Bodies"
By Shufang Yang
Chapter 5
Opting-Out of Public Education as an Act of Racial Protectionism
By Alice T. Crowe
PART III: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY, NEOLIBERALISM AND HIGHER ED
Chapter 6
Perceptions of Criminality: An Experiment on Race, Class, and Gender Stereotypes
By Tricia Davis
Chapter 7
"Has No Place:" The Adverse Effects of Brown vs. Board of Education on Black Students in United States Schools
By Latrisha Y. Dean, Veta E. Parker, and Michael J. Seaberry
Chapter 8
Immigrants as the Commodified Other: Xenoracism and Neoliberalism in
The United States of (Non)citizens
By Chau Vu
