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Colormute Mica Pollock

Colormute By Mica Pollock

Colormute by Mica Pollock


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Viewing 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.

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Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing race talk through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an anthropologist, it discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. Pollock illustrates the wide variations in the way speakers use race labels. Sometimes people use them without thinking twice; at other moments they avoid them at all costs or use them only in the description of particular situations. While a major concern of everyday race talk in schools is that racial descriptions will be inaccurate or inappropriate, Pollock demonstrates that anxiously suppressing race words (being what she terms colormute) can also cause educators to reproduce the very racial inequities they abhor. The book assists readers in cultivating a greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of everyday race talk and clarifies previously murky discussions of colorblindness. By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Colormute will be enormously helpful in fostering ongoing conversations about dismantling racial inequality in America.

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Winner 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

About Mica Pollock

Mica Pollock is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She previously also worked in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Table of Contents

Preface 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

Additional information

CIN0691123950G
9780691123950
0691123950
Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock
Used - Good
Paperback
Princeton University Press
20051023
288
Winner of AESA Critic's Choice Award 2005 Winner of AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book Award 2005
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