{"product_id":"another-kind-of-public-education-race-schools-the-media-and-democratic-possibilities-9780807000250","title":"Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious book on how schools, race, and the media intertwine in the twenty-first century \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSociologist 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, near the end of a public school education that \"had almost silenced me,\" 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, and someone else took her place on stage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnother Kind of Public Education\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Collins begins, in a tour de force of social analysis with practical implications, by demystifying what she calls \"racism as a system of power.\" She argues that the generation coming of age at the turn of the twenty-first century--in a post-civil-rights society that publicly claims to be \"color-blind\"--needs a new language for analyzing the new \"color-blind racism\" of contemporary society that has stymied efforts to live up to the promise of American democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She shows us how racism as a system of power works in four distinct yet intertwined domains--structural, disciplinary, cultural, and interpersonal. Drawing examples from schools, politics, pop culture, personal experience, and more, she demonstrates in eye-opening ways how racial inequality is manufactured and reinforced, even as we publicly espouse an ideology of color-blind fairness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And she points, crucially, to what we can do about it. Noting that everyone is situated differently in the complex domains of power, she urges us to \"think expansively about resistance,\" to figure out in which domain we can have the most effect in resisting racism as a system of power, and how. She also discusses classrooms around the country, teaching as a subversive activity, \"cultivating countersurveillance,\" and the power of storytelling and media. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Blending entertaining storytelling, social theory, and practical suggestions for changing institutions, including schools, \u003ci\u003eAnother Kind of Public Education \u003c\/i\u003eis both a call for change and a reminder that public education--in every sense--is at the heart of American democratic possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Hill Collins\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park, past president of the American Sociological Association, and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eBlack Feminist Thought\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Sexual Politics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492096315666,"sku":"9780807000250","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9ffd4bd4-c314-4fdb-8762-fc380f94c3a5.jpg?v=1730571175","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/another-kind-of-public-education-race-schools-the-media-and-democratic-possibilities-9780807000250","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}