Courageous conversations about race
Subtitle: a field guide for achieving equity in schools
By: by Glenn E. Singleton & Curtis Linton.
Contributors: Linton, Curtis.
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Educational equalization -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Engaging the conversation about race; title: Courageous conversation; title: Race matters; title: Four agreements of courageous conversations; title: First condition of courageous conversations : establish a racial context that is personal, immediate, and local; title: Second condition of courageous conversations : isolate race while acknowledging the broader scope of diversity and the variety of factors and conditions which contribute to a racialized problem; title: Third condition of courageous conversations : normalize social construction of knowledge thus engaging multiple racial points of view in order to surface critical perspective; title: Fourth condition of courageous conversations : monitor the conditions of the conversation by being explicit and intentional about the number of participants, prompts for discussion, and time allotted for listening, speaking, and reflecting : use the courageous conversations compass to determine how each participant is believing, thinking, being and feeling about a given racial topic; title: Fifth condition of courageous conversations : establish agreement around a contemporary "working definition of race" that is clearly differentiated from that of ethnicity and nationality; title: Sixth condition of courageous conversations : examine the presence and role of "whiteness," its impact on the conversation, and the problem being addressed; title: Race and schooling; title: Systemic equity work; title: Anti-racist leadership.