Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective (Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498548997 ISBN 13: 9781498548991

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Hayward Derrick Horton is professor of sociology at University at Albany, State University of New York. Lori Latrice Martin is associate professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Louisiana State University. Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner is Shirley B. Barton Endowed associate professor at Louisiana State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498548997
• ISBN 13: 9781498548991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: Horton Hayward Derrick, Martin Lori Latrice, Fasching-Varner Kenneth J.