Confronting racism in higher education : problems and possibilities for fighting ignorance, bigotry and isolation

• Other Authors: Brooks, Jeffrey S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2013]
• Series: Educational leadership for social justice.
• Subjects: Discrimination in education > United States.; Racism in education > United States.; Education, Higher > United States.; Education > Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.; Racism and racial discrimination, Anti-racism.; Philosophy and theory of education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806614219
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-158-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages)

Racism and ignorance churn on college campuses as surely as they do in society at large. Over the past fifteen years there have been many discussions regarding racism and higher education. Some of these focus on formal policies and dynamics such as Affirmative Action or The Dream Act, while many mor...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Confronting racism in higher education
• Chapter 2. Problems and possibilities for fighting ignorance, bigotry and isolation / Noelle Witherspoon Arnold and Jeffrey S. Brooks
• Chapter 3. Examining the blockages of race-related conversations in the classroom: From recognition to action / Sarah Diem and Bradley W. Carpenter
• Chapter 4. Persistence is chess, not checkers: A counterstory on the lives and strategies of six African American administrators at one predominantly white institution / Brandon L. Wolfe
• Chapter 5. Combat in the academy: Racial battle fatigue, role strain, and African American faculty at public community colleges / Tamara Nichele Stevenson
• Chapter 6. Critical race theory and college readiness: A review of the literature / Chad Everett Kee
• Chapter 7. An overview of the history, research, and culture of historically black greek letter organizations / Andre Brown
• Chapter 8. Legal and educational foundations in critical race theory / Evelyn Y. Young
• Chapter 9. Critical race theory and its viability as a tool for critiquing current theoretical leadership: Constructions of African American women / Collette Madeleine Bloom
• Chapter 10. Re(thinking) race: Positioning multiracial representations within critical pedagogy / Claire Peinado Fraczek
• Chapter 11. Who's zoomin' who?: A critical race analysis of florida's public high school graduates / Terri Watson and Jennifer Sughrue
• Chapter 12. Neither latino nor white enough: Educational experiences of meso hispanic, meso American, urban, and suburban public high school students / Paula Marie Gallegos
• About the contributors.