Stubborn roots
Subtitle: cultivating cultural flexibility and equity in U.S. and South African schools
By: Prudence L. Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199899630; 9780199899654
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Educational equalization; Discrimination in education; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Distinctions and convergences: a brief history of race and education in the United States and South Africa; title: Selecting "good" schools in the U.S. and South Africa; title: Paradoxes of opportunity: resources, boundaries, and organizational-racial habitus; title: Student cultural flexibility: the (un) making of multicultural navigators; title: The more things change, the more threatening they feel: white youths' attitudes on equity; title: Equity and empathy: growing equality of opportunity; title: Stubborn roots: weeding out educational inequality.