Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools

A Critical Demography Perspective

Hayward Derrick Horton, Lori Latrice Martin, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9798216212270
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

The roles of race and racism in explaining current controversies related to public schools in America is both understudied and misunderstood. Part of the problem is the absence of a critical paradigm that facilitates the development and application of ideas, theories, and methods that do not fit within the confines of mainstream scholarship. Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical demography necessitates explicit discussions and examinations of the nature of power and how it perpetuates the existing social order. Hence, in the case of race in education, it is imperative that racism is central to the analysis. Racism elucidates that which often goes ignored or unexplained by conventional scholars. Consequently, the critical demography paradigm fills an important void in the study of public education in American schools.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Race, Population Studies, and America’s Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective
• Part One CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN PERSPECTIVE
• Chapter One Seventeen Years Later Revisiting the Critical Demography Paradigm to Examine Public Education in American Schools
• Chapter Two The Educational Plight of Black Men and Boys in Baton Rouge A Critical Demography Perspective
• Part Two CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHYAND K–12
• Chapter Three Detours to Destruction A Critical Demography Perspective on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Chapter Four School Uniforms, Elementary Students—“Docile Bodies”
• Chapter Five Opting-Out of Public Education as an Act of Racial Protectionism
• Part Three CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY, NEOLIBERALISM, AND HIGHER ED
• Chapter Six Perceptions of Criminality An Experiment on Race, Class, and Gender Stereotypes
• Chapter Seven “Has No Place” The Adverse Effects of Brown vs. Board of Education on Black Students in United States Schools
• Chapter Eight Immigrants as the Commodified Other Xenoracism and Neoliberalism in the United States of (Non)citizens
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors