Courageous Conversations about Race : A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools,9780761988779

Courageous Conversations about Race : A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools

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ISBN13: 9780761988779
ISBN10: 0761988777
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-11-18
Publisher(s): Corwin Pr
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Summary

Examining the achievement gap through the prism of race, this comprehensive text explains the need for candid, courageous conversations about race so that educators may understand why performance inequity persists, and learn how they can develop a curriculum that promotes true academic parity. To help guide policy analysis and instructional reform, the authors present a systemwide plan for transforming schools and districts.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
About the Authors xxi
Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversation About Race
1(10)
The Racial Achievement Gap
2(4)
Three Critical Factors
6(1)
The Strategy of Courageous Conversation
7(4)
PART I. PASSION: AN ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF ANTI-RACIST LEADERSHIP
11(58)
What's So Courageous About This Conversation?
13(12)
Courageous Conversation
15(6)
A Difficult Conversation
21(4)
Why Race?
25(28)
The Problem of the Color Line
26(3)
The Racial Gap
29(4)
Race as a Factor in Education
33(5)
Dealing With Race
38(1)
Establishing Common Language Around Race
39(8)
Do We Have the Will?
47(6)
Agreeing to Talk About Race
53(16)
Racial Consciousness
54(4)
Four Agreements of Courageous Conversation
58(11)
PART II. PRACTICE: THE FOUNDATION OF ANTI-RACIST LEADERSHIP
69(142)
The First Condition: Getting Personal Right Here and Right Now
73(14)
Personal, Local, and Immediate
74(1)
The Impact of Race on My Life
75(3)
Degree of Racial Consciousness
78(1)
Racial Consciousness Versus Racial Unconsciousness
78(9)
Racial Autobiography: Curtis Linton
82(5)
The Second Condition: Keeping the Spotlight on Race
87(18)
Isolating Race
88(6)
Unpacking Race
94(11)
Racial Autobiography: Glenn Singleton
101(4)
The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Racial Perspectives
105(12)
Social Construction of Knowledge
106(2)
Surfacing Critical Perspectives
108(9)
Racial Autobiography: Ann
113(4)
The Fourth Condition: Keeping Us All at the Table
117(40)
Interracial Dialogue
119(8)
Creating Safety
127(8)
The Courageous Conversation Compass
135(22)
Racial Autobiography: Supriya
154(3)
The Fifth Condition: What Do You Mean by ``Race''?
157(24)
A Brief History of Race
158(9)
A Working Definition of Race
167(14)
Racial Autobiography: Katheryn
178(3)
The Sixth Condition: Let's Talk About Whiteness
181(30)
White Is a Color
182(1)
White Privilege
183(6)
White Is a Culture
189(2)
White Consciousness
191(5)
Whiteness as Examined in the Five Conditions
196(7)
White Racial Identity Development
203(8)
Racial Autobiography: Chris
208(3)
PART III. PERSISTENCE: THE KEY TO ANTI-RACIST LEADERSHIP
211(54)
How Anti-Racist Leaders Close the Achievement Gap
213(12)
Invisibility Versus Hypervisibility
214(3)
Understanding Students of Color Within a White School
217(3)
Understanding Institutionalized White Racism
220(3)
The Injustice of Gradualism and Incremental Change
223(2)
Exploring a Systemic Framework for Closing the Racial Achievement Gap
225(14)
A Vision of Equity
226(2)
Systemic Equity Anti-Racism Transformation
228(11)
Using Courageous Conversation to Achieve Equity in Schools
239(26)
Personal Anti-Racist/Equity Leadership
240(2)
Individual Teacher Anti-Racist/Equity Leadership
242(1)
Whole School Anti-Racist/Equity Leadership
243(2)
Systemic Anti-Racist/Equity Leadership
245(1)
Lemon Grove Unified School District: A Case Study
245(16)
Anti-Racist Leadership
261(4)
Resource: Racism and the Achievement Gap 265(6)
Julian Weissglass
References 271(4)
Index 275

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