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The Other Elephant in the (Class)Room: White Liberalism and the Persistence of Racism in Education

The Other Elephant in the (Class)Room: White Liberalism and the Persistence of Racism in Education

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General EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 0807768820
ISBN13: 9780807768822
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Sep 22 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.24 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

Purposeful, intentional racial bias poses an obvious threat to the possibility of real equity in schools. In this volume, antiracist educators explore an equally troubling, but insufficiently explored threat: the racism upheld by schools and districts that claim an antiracist commitment. These institutions perpetuate disparities by enacting that commitment through surface-level and soft diversity and inclusion goals and popular initiatives that are more equity optics than antiracism. This book asks: How is racism perpetuated through actions, programs, practices, and initiatives that might appear to be inclusion-oriented or progressive, but never quite get around to eliminating racism? How do these efforts pose as racial equity while protecting systems of advantage and disadvantage--creating a sort of equity inertia? The book then asks: What would antiracism look like if we enacted a deeper antiracist approach? What is a truer vision for racial equity? Diverse authors apply these questions to an equally diverse assortment of programs and practices, such as trauma-informed care, social-emotional learning, restorative practices, anti-bias work in early childhood education, Montessori schooling, inclusive social studies curricula, and toxic positivity and niceness as stand-ins for racial equity.

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