{"product_id":"colormute-9780691123950","title":"Colormute","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eViewing race talk through the lens of a California high school and district, this book draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. It discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2005 Critics' Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association \"Pollock attacks the topic with strength, providing a clear, compelling, and well-written argument. She helps readers cultivate greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of daily race talk. A necessary and important work in fostering ongoing conversations about dismantling racial inequality in the United States.\"--Library Journal \"The dilemma at the heart of this book is the same dilemma at the heart of US society: practically no available form of public discourse about racial topics or issues actually engages with what race i... This book's ethnographic setting, detailed observations, and transcripts provide a close-up look at a vexing everyday issue, demonstrating an important performative dimension in the generation of racialization.\"--Bonnie Urciuoli,Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix  Acknowledgments xiii  Introduction 1  One  WeDon't Belong to Simple Race Groups, but We Do 18  Two  Race Doesn't Matter, but It Does 44  Three  TheDe-Raced Words We Use When Discussing Plans for Racial Equality Can Actually Keep Us from Discussing Ways to Make Opportunities Racially Equal 74  Four  The More Complex Inequality Seems to Get, the More Simplistic Inequality Analysis Seems to Become 109  Five  TheQuestions We Ask Most about RaceAretheVery Questions We Most Suppress 147  Six  Although Talking in Racial Terms Can Make Race Matter, Not Talking in Racial Terms Can Make Race Matter Too 172  Moving Forward 210  Practically Speaking: Words for Educators in Particular 220  Note 227  Bibliography 251","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403739570519,"sku":"9780691123950","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691123950.jpg?v=1730484407","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colormute-9780691123950","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}