Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities

by Patricia Hill Collins

Book Overview

An ambitious book on how schools, race, and the media intertwine in the twenty-first century 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, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807000256
• ISBN13: 9780807000250
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"