Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
Author | : Hayward Derrick Horton |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781498549004 |
ISBN-13 | : 1498549004 |
Rating | : 4/5 (004 Downloads) |
Download or read book Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools written by Hayward Derrick Horton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.