Table of Contents:
  • Examining the color line in schools.
  • There is no race in the schoolyard: color-blind ideology at Foresthills.
  • Struggling with dangerous subjects: race at West City Elementary.
  • Breaking the silence: race, culture, language, and power at Metro2.
  • Learning and living racial boundaries: constructing and negotiating racial identity in school.
  • Schooling and the social reproduction of racial inequality.
  • Schools as race-making institutions.
  • Appendix: Research methods: stories from the field.