Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
By Patricia Hill Collins
From Publisher's Synopsis... Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins opens this brilliant new book on race and education by describing how in her senior year at the Philadelphia High School for girls ... she was invited to deliver a graduation address on the meaning of the American flag. She refused to deliver the censored version her teacher demanded... . Another Kind of Public Education spins the threads of that story--the way education, race, and democracy are intertwined; the way racism and resistance work through a variety of unspoken means; what schools do to limit or to open up possibilities--into a call for "another kind of public education," one that helps us "envision new democratic possibilities."
