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“rory kramer”

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  • Young, Gifted and Diverse

    Origins of the New Black Elite

    by Camille Z. Charles, Douglas S. Massey, Kimberly C. Torres, Rory Kramer ...
    An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional classDespite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing from a representative sample of over a thousand Black students and in-depth interviews and focus groups with over one hundred more, Young, Gifted and Diverse highlights diversity among the new educated ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students

    Qualitative and Intersectional Studies of Educational Mobility

    by Jenny Stuber, Trista Beard, Kim Godsoe, Casandra E. Harper, Allison L. Hurst, Véronique Irwin, Anthony Abraham Jack, Judy Marquez Kiyama, Rory Kramer, Elizabeth M. Lee, Robin Minthorn0, Ann L. Mullen1, Delma Ramos2, Bedelia Nicola Richards3, Ashley C. Rondini5, Thomas Piñeros Shields7, Nicolas P. Simon8, Fanny Yeung0, Natalie Rose Youngbull1 ...
    Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students comprises a wide range of studies that explore the multidimensional social processes and meanings germane to the experiences of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into institutions of higher education. The chapters offer timely, empirical examinations of the ways that these students negotiate experiences ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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    A Systematic Analysis

    by Jenny Stuber, Jeanne Ballantine, Judson Everitt ...
    The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its overview of education and schooling.Education is changing rapidly, just as the social forces outside of schools are, and to present the material in a meaningful way, the authors of this book provide a unifying ... Read more

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  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

    And Other Conversations About Race

    by Beverly Daniel Tatum ...
    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” ―Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Despite the Best Intentions

    How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools

    by Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond ...
    Series series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
    On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Light in Their Eyes

    Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Read more

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  • The Imperative of Integration

    by Elizabeth Anderson ...
    A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integrationMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Race at the Top

    Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools

    by Natasha Warikoo ...
    An illuminating, in-depth look at competition in suburban high schools with growing numbers of Asian Americans, where white parents are determined to ensure that their children remain at the head of the class.The American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, and—most important to parents—high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • No Excuses

    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

    by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...
    Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD