Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom

by Ranita Ray

A powerful expos of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools into hostile work and learning environments.

In 2017, sociologist Ranita Ray stepped inside a fourth-grade classroom in one of the nation's largest majority-minority districts in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was there to conduct research on the lack of resources and budget cuts that regularly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250288304
• ISBN13: 9781250288301
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"