Demonstrates how ingrained ideas of race created and sustain the achievement gap in U. S. schools.

Examines the relationship between instruction and academic culture in the college writing classroom.

Examines emerging theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of sociology of education. These perspectives draw on notions of social justice, diversity, multiculturalism, and detracking.

Discusses the issue of engagement, and nonengagement, of students in multicultural education programs.

This book explores and expands upon linkages between multicultural education and critical pedagogy, drawing on the shared goal of challenging oppressive social relationships.