{"product_id":"colormute-race-talk-dilemmas-in-an-american-school-paperback","title":"Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMica Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing \"race talk\" through the lens of a California high school and district, \u003ci\u003eColormute\u003c\/i\u003e draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an anthropologist, it discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pollock illustrates the wide variations in the way speakers use race labels. Sometimes people use them without thinking twice; at other moments they avoid them at all costs or use them only in the description of particular situations. While a major concern of everyday race talk in schools is that racial descriptions will be inaccurate or inappropriate, Pollock demonstrates that anxiously suppressing race words (being what she terms \"colormute\") can also cause educators to reproduce the very racial inequities they abhor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book assists readers in cultivating a greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of everyday race talk and clarifies previously murky discussions of \"colorblindness.\" By bridging the gap between theory and practice, \u003ci\u003eColormute\u003c\/i\u003e will be enormously helpful in fostering ongoing conversations about dismantling racial inequality in America.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scholarship is provocative, the text well written, and the argument clear and compelling. Pollock is a truly gifted writer.--Michelle Fine, City University of New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Professor Pollock attacks a vitally important topic with vitality and an engaging and very readable style. Displaying a keen ear, she has artfully picked up the nuances of 'race talk' from students she has taught and observed. Pollock presents a troubling, but significant finding: Talking in racial terms can make race matter; but so too, can not speaking in racial terms.\"--Hugh Mehan, University of California San Diego\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The scholarship is provocative, the text well written, and the argument clear and compelling. Pollock is a truly gifted writer.\"\u003cb\u003e--Michelle Fine, City University of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Professor Pollock attacks a vitally important topic with vitality and an engaging and very readable style. Displaying a keen ear, she has artfully picked up the nuances of 'race talk' from students she has taught and observed. Pollock presents a troubling, but significant finding: Talking in racial terms can make race matter; but so too, can not speaking in racial terms.\"\u003cb\u003e--Hugh Mehan, University of California San Diego\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This welcome book invites us to become more critically conscious of 'race talk' and thus more aware of how even our silences can reproduce racial hierarchies.\"\u003cb\u003e--Charles Payne, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pollock's profound insights about the dilemmas of race talk and silence will change the way Americans think about language, social categories, and the responsibilities we must face if we are ever to make headway against racial inequality.\"\u003cb\u003e--Katherine S. Newman, Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMica Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She previously also worked in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.2 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52504688591155,"sku":"9780691123950","price":87.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cnBtbTl6MGhhWjZuRWdLK3Z4WThxQT09.webp?v=1760198304","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/colormute-race-talk-dilemmas-in-an-american-school-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}