High Schools, Race, and America's Future

What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community

Lawrence Blum

• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781612504674
• Topic: Pedagogía
• Subtopic: Educación multicultural

In High Schools, Race, and America’s Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students’ engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives. Blum, an acclaimed moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects with candor, insight, and humor on the challenges and surprises encountered in teaching—the unexpected turns in conversation, the refreshing directness of students’ questions, the “aha” moments and the awkward ones, and the paradoxes of his own role as a white college professor teaching in a multiracial high school classroom. High Schools, Race, and America’s Future provides an invaluable resource for those who want to teach students to think deeply and talk productively about race.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 The First Day
• 2 Comfort and Suspicion
• 3 “Smedley Is a Woman?!”
• 4 Intervention in Racial Incidents
• 5 Reflections on Immigration and Race
• 6 The African Role in Slavery
• 7 Banneker, Walker, and Jefferson
• 8 Reflections on Expectations and Potential
• 9 Hair, Skin, and Pride
• 10 Looking Back on Slavery
• 11 The N-Word
• 12 The Last Day
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Index