Race and Gender in the Classroom explores the paradoxes of education, race, and gender, as Laurie Cooper Stoll follows eighteen teachers carrying out their roles as educators in an era of post-racial and post-gendered politics. Because there are a number of contentious issues converging simultaneously in these teachers everyday lives, this is a book comprised of several interrelated stories. On the one hand, this is a story about teachers who care deeply about their students but are generally oblivious to the ways in which their words and behaviors reinforce dominant narratives about race and gender, constructing for their students a worldview in which race and gender do not matter despite their students lived experiences demonstrating otherwise. This is a story about dedicated, overworked teachers who are trying to keep their heads above water while meeting the myriad demands placed upon them in a climate of high-stakes testing. This is a story about the disconnect between those who mandate educational policy like superintendents and school boards and the teachers who are expected to implement those policies often with little or no input and few resources. This is ultimately a story, however, about how the institution of education itself operates in a post-racial and post-gendered society.
Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Chapter 1: Constructing the Color- and Gender-Blind Classroom Chapter 2: Race in the Color-Blind Classroom: Multiculturalism and Tracking Chapter 3: What Problem? Gender in the Gender in the Gender-Blind Classroom Chapter 4: Mapping the Ruling Relations Chapter 5: The Countervailing Forces of Privilege Chapter 6: Confronting Paradox Appendix A: Initial Interview Instrument Appendix B: Final Interview Instrument References Index
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