Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools, Revised Edition

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic text. Focuses on the roles of hope, participation, and change in reforming American schools.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Michelle Fine and Lois Weis SECTION ONE: STRUCTURING EXCLUSIONS: EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, POLITICS, AND PRACTICES l. Segregation 50 Years after Brown: A Metropolitan Change Gary Orfield and Chungmei Lee 2. The Education Pipeline in the United States, 1970--2000: Trends in Attrition, Retention, and Graduation Rates Walter Haney, Lisa Abrams, George Madaus, Anne Wheelock, Jing Miao and Ileana M. Gruia 3. Reform as Redefining the Spaces of Schools: An Examination of Detracking by Choice Susan Yonezawa and Amy Stuart Wells 4. Hollowing the Promise of Higher Education: Inside the Political Economy of Access to College Janice L. Bloom 5. Subtractive Schooling, Caring Relations, and Social Capital in the Schooling of U.S.-Mexican Youth Angela Valenzuela 6. The Ideology of "Fag": The School Experience of Gay Students George W. Smith (completed for publication by Dorothy E. Smith) SECTION TWO: LISTENING HARD: SILENCE AND DISSENT 7. Race, Suburban Resentment, and the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and Television Cameron McCarthy, Alicia Rodriguez, Shuaib Meecham, Stephen David, Carrie Wilson-Brown, Heriberto Godina, K. E. Supryia, and Ed Buendia 8. Learning about Race, Learning about "America": Hmong American High School Students Stacey J. Lee 9. In the Bad or Good of Girlhood: Social Class, Schooling, and White Femininities Lyn Mikel Brown 10. The Culture of Black Femininity and School Success Carla O'Connor, R. L'Heureux Lewis, and Jennifer Mueller 11. Speech and Silence: An Analysis of the Cultural Practice of Talking Heejung S. Kim and Hazel Rose Markus SECTION THREE: EDUCATING FOR CHANGE 12. Global Politics, Dissent, and Palestinian American Identities: Engaging Conflict to Reinvigorate Democratic Education Thea Renda Abu El-Haj 13. Risky Business: Teaching about the Confederate Flag Controversy in a South Carolina High School Dennis Carlson and Susan L. Schramm-Pate, with Richard R. Lussier 14. Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Urban Youth: Beyond Silenced Voices Greg Dimitriadis 15 The Alchemy of Integrated Spaces: Youth Participation in Research Collectives of Difference Maria Elena Torre Notes References Contributors Index

About the Author :
Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Michelle Fine is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Together they have written and edited many books, including Working Method: Research and Social Justice and (with Linda Powell Pruitt and April Burns) Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance.