The Edge of Race: Critical Examinations of Education and Race/Racism

ISBN-13: 9781138308930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 172 str.

Kalervo N. Gulson; Zeus Leonardo; David Gillborn

Opis

Using the idea of ‘the edge of race’ as a provocation, this book examines the concepts, methodologies, policies, and practices associated with race and racism in education. It was published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Spis treści

Introduction – The edge of race: critical examinations of education and race/racism  1. Interest-divergence and the colour of cutbacks: race, recession and the undeclared war on Black children  2. A political investment: revisiting race and racism in the research process  3. Race talk and school equity in local print media: the discursive flexibility of whiteness and the promise of race-conscious talk  4. ‘Waiting for Superman’ to save black people: racial representation and the official antiracism of neoliberal school reform  5. From model minorities to disposable models: the de-legitimisation of educational success through discourses of authenticity  6. 14 souls, 19 days and 1600 dreams: engaging critical race praxis while living on the ‘edge’ of race  7. ‘Too Asian?’ On racism, paradox and ethno-nationalism  8. The story of schooling: critical race theory and the educational racial contract  9. You can’t erase race! Using CRT to explain the presence of race and racism in majority white suburban schools  10. ‘We had to hide we’re Muslim’: ambient fear, Islamic schools and the geographies of race and religion

O autorze

Kalervo N. Gulson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research contributes to, and draws upon, education policy studies, sociology of education, race/ ethnicity, and social and cultural geography. His current research focuses on the relationship between education policy and calculative spaces, and what kind of life is possible within and through these calculative spaces.　His recent publications include Education policy, space and the city: markets and the (in)visibility of race (2011), and Policy, geophilosophy, education (with T. Webb, 2015).

Zeus Leonardo is Professor of Education, and Affiliated Faculty of the Critical Theory Designated Emphasis at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. He has published several dozen articles and book chapters on critical educational theory. His articles have appeared in Educational Researcher, Race Ethnicity & Education, and Teachers College Record. His recent books include Race Frameworks (2013), Education and Racism (with W. Norton Grubb, 2013), and Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education (ed. 2010).

David Gillborn is Professor of Critical Race Studies, and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is founding editor of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education. He is twice winner of the ‘Book of the Year’ award by the Society for Educational Studies, most recently for Racism and Education: coincidence or conspiracy (2008). He received the Derrick Bell Legacy Award from the Critical Race Studies in Education Association, for demonstrating ‘personal courage and professional commitment to supporting and advocating race equality in education’, and was recently named to the Laureate Chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi　international honour society.