Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools

by Prudence L. Carter

Book Overview

What are the features of the school environment that make students' of color incorporation greater at some schools than at others? Prudence L. Carter seeks to answer this basic but bedeviling question through a rich comparative analysis of the organizational and group dynamics in eight schools located within four cities in the United States and South Africa-two nations rebounding from centuries of overt practices of racial and social inequality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199899657
• ISBN13: 9780199899654
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"