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Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understandingreviewed by Patricia H. Hinchey - 2004 Title: Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understanding Author(s): Stuart Greene and Dawn Abt-Perkins (Editors) Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807743917, Pages: 205, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Readers can be sure that this book delivers on
the promise of its title: this collection of articles does
render race visible. The task is simply stated, much more
arduously accomplished. Despite a flood of research
demonstrating pervasive racial influences and inequities, many
Americans still believe that our racist past is largely behind us,
and that with enough determination and hard work, anyone can
overcome obstacles to individual success. This naive faith in
equal opportunity and individual efficacy may be due at least in
part to the fact that racial influences, however pervasive and
pernicious, remain maddeningly subtle and unrecognized—even
among those working toward a more just society. In direct and
compelling refutation to assertions that race has little
contemporary effect, and with an unflinching look at some stark
contrasts between teachers’ and researchers’ intentions
and realities, the wide-ranging set of articles Greene and
Abt-Perkins have put together starkly uncovers race as an
ever-present variable in all experience, inside and outside of
classrooms, at the levels of both... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Patricia Hinchey
Pennsylvania State University E-mail Author PATRICIA H. HINCHEY is an associate professor of Education at Penn State. Her books include Finding Freedom in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction to Critical Theory; Students’ Rights; and with Isabel Kimmel, The Graduate Grind: A Critical Look at Graduate Education. Her most recent work, Becoming a Critical Educator: Defining a Classroom Identity, Designing a Critical Pedagogy, will be available spring, 2004.
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