An unexpected minority; white kids in an urban school.9780813537214 An unexpected minority; white kids in an urban school. Morris, Edward W. Rutgers U. Press 2006 171 pages $23.95 Paperback LC214 At a Texas middle school that has mostly African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. , Latinos, and Asians, Morris (sociology, Ohio U.) analyzed the experiences of white students, and details the results here, emphasizing what it reveals about whiteness and race in the US. He provides a theoretical basis for his ethnography ethnography: see anthropology; ethnology. ethnography Descriptive study of a particular human society. Contemporary ethnography is based almost entirely on fieldwork. and considers how the concept of white privilege White privilege has the following meanings:
v. dis·so·ci·at·ed, dis·so·ci·at·ing, dis·so·ci·ates v.tr. 1. To remove from association; separate: themselves from the meaning of whiteness to fit in. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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