An unexpected minority
Subtitle: white kids in an urban school
By: Edward W. Morris.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780813537207; 9780813537214
Subjects: School integration -- Texas -- Case studies.; Urban schools -- Texas -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies.; Children, White -- Education -- Texas -- Case studies.; United States -- Race relations -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding white advantages in education and society; title: Matthews Middle School in historical and contemporary context; title: "Tuck in that shirt!" race, class, gender and discipline; title: From "middle-class" to "trailer trash:" teachers' perceptions of white students; title: "White chocolate:" meanings and boundaries of whiteness in the peer culture.