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This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing ""race talk"" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an anthropologist, it discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. Pollock ill

In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today--and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it. Pollock encountered these debates while working at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in 1999-2001. For more than two years, she listened to hundreds of parents, advocates, educators, and federal employees talk about the educational treatment of children and youth in specific schools and districts. People debated how children were spoken to, disciplined, and ignored in both segregated and desegregated districts, and how children were afforded or denied basic resources and opportunities to learn. Pollock discusses four rebuttals that greeted demands for everyday justice for students of color inside schools and districts. She explores how debates over daily opportunity provision exposed conflicting analyses of opportunity denial and harm worth remedying. Because of Race lays bare our habits of argument and offers concrete suggestions for arguing more successfully toward equal opportunity.

On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American college student from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while attempting to prevent, with her own body, the Israeli demolition of a Palestinian doctor's home in the Occupied Territories. Photos of blond and petite Corrie, taken during the incident by fellow twenty-something nonviolent activists in the "International Solidarity Movement" (ISM), which Corrie had joined for her work in Palestine, showed her standing high on a pile of dirt in front of the American-made Caterpillar bulldozer. A small figure in a fluorescent jacket holding a bullhorn, she sat down momentarily to stop the bulldozer and then stood high on the dirt pile and looked the bulldozer's driver in the eye. The bulldozer didn't stop. It ran her over, pinning her under the mound of dirt; it then reversed without lifting its blade and ran over her again. ISM volunteers quickly surrounded the crushed and bleeding Corrie, who gasped, according to 21-year-old fellow ISM activist Joe from Iowa, "They broke my back." Shortly after Palestinian ambulance drivers transported Corrie to a local hospital, she died from a crushed chest and skull, joining the hundreds of young Palestinians and scores of young Israelis killed throughout the Israeli military and settler occupation that she and other ISMers had come to challenge.

Introduction / Mica Pollock, Bradley A.U. Levinson -- Histories and Generations. World Anthropologies of Education / Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt -- Culture / Frederick Erickson -- The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955-2010 / Ray McDermott, Jason Duque Raley -- Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next / Hervé Varenne, Jill Koyama -- Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education / Elsie Rockwell -- The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology / Douglas Foley -- "If There's Going to Be an Anthropology of Education" / Harry F. Wolcott -- Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy / Jean J. Schensul -- Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing. Linguistic Anthropology of Education / Stanton Wortham, Angela Reyes -- The Anthropology of Literacy / Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Lalitha Vasudevan, Doris Warriner -- The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy / Teresa L McCarty, Larisa Warhol -- Language Socialization across Educational Settings / Patricia Baquedano-López, Sera Jean Hernandez -- Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media / Joseph Tobin, Allison Henward -- Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-Literacy / H. Samy Alim -- Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms / Laura J. Wright, Joel Kuipers, Gail Viechnicki -- States, Identities, and Education. The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects / Véronique Benei -- Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education / Bradley A.U. Levinson -- Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond / Amy Stambach, Zolani Ngwane -- Civil Sociality and Childhood Education / Sally Anderson -- Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education / Vanessa L. Fong, Sung won Kim -- Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East / Fida Adely, Gregory Starrett -- Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State / Carlos Miñana Blasco, Carolina Arango Vargas -- Roles, Experiences, and Institutions. Immigrants and Education / Margaret A. Gibson, Jill P. Koyama -- Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity / Angel Diaz de Rada, Livia Jimenez Sedano -- Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching / Sarah Jewett, Katherine Schultz -- Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education / Wesley Shumar, Shabana Mir -- What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation 'Anthropological'? / Edmund T. Hamann, Lisa Rosen -- Interventions. The Past, Present, and Future of 'Funds of Knowledge' / Norma Gonzalez, Leisy Wyman, Brendan H. O'connor -- Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education / Gunther Dietz, Laura Selene Mateos Cortés -- A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education / Julio Cammarota -- Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling / Janise Hurtig, Andrea Dyrness -- The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice / Patricia D. Lopez, Angela Valenzuela, Emmanuel García