ED361416 UD029399
Title: Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States
Schools.
Author(s): Weis, Lois, Ed.; Fine, Michelle, Ed.
Pages: 444
Publication Date: 1993
Notes: A volume in the State University of New York Series: Frontiers
in Education, Philip G. Altbach, Editor.
ISBN: 0-7914-1286-5
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: State University of New York Press, State University
Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 (hardcover--ISBN-0-7914-1285-7).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEJAN1994
This book
presents the following 16 papers addressing race, class, and gender
in U.S. education; institutionalized power and privilege; and policies,
discourses, and practices that may silence powerless groups: (1)
"Breaking through the Barriers: African American Job Candidates
and the Academic Hiring Process" (Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen
Samuel Smith, and Melvin L. Oliver); (2) "Gifted Education
and the Protection of Privilege: Breaking the Silence, Opening the
Discourse" (Mara Sapon-Shevin); (3) "Testing and Minorities"
(Walter Haney); (4) "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females:
The Missing Discourse of Desire" (Michelle Fine); (5) Empowering
Minority Students: A Framework for Intervention" (Jim Cummins);
(6) "The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating
Other People's Children" (Lisa D. Delpit); (7) "Joining
the Resistance: Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women" (Carol
Gilligan); (8) "Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of
Romance Fiction" (Linda K. Christian-Smith); (9) "Disruptions:
Improper Masculinities and Schooling" (R. W. Connell); (10)
"Choices, Not Closets: Heterosexism and Homophobia in Schools"
(Richard A. Friend); (11) "White Male Working-Class Youth:
An Exploration of Relative Privilege and Loss" (Lois Weis);
(12) "Dropouts and the Silencing of Critical Voices" (Robert
B. Stevenson and Jeanne Ellsworth); (13) "Resisting Racism:
Personal Testimonies of African-American Teachers" (Michele
Foster); (14) "Constructing Race at an Urban High School: In
Their Minds, Their Mouths, Their Hearts" (Judy Cohen); (15)
"The College Experience of Native Americans: A Critical Analysis"
(William G. Tierney); and (16) "Beyond the Poverty of Theory
in Race Relations: Nonsynchrony and Social Difference in Education"
(Cameron McCarthy). An index, information on the contributors, and
notes for each paper are provided. (JB)
Descriptors: *Affirmative Action; *Educational Discrimination; Elementary
Secondary Education; Equal Education; Equal Opportunities (Jobs);
Higher Education; *Minority Groups; Personnel Selection; Racial
Differences; *Racial Discrimination; Racial Relations; Sex Differences;
*Sex Discrimination; *Social Class; Social Differences; Urban Schools
Identifiers: Student Empowerment
