The roles of race and racism in explaining current controversies related to public schools in America is both understudied and misunderstood. Part of the problem is the absence of a critical paradigm that facilitates the development and application of ideas, theories, and methods that do not fit within the confines of mainstream scholarship. Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography-established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical demography necessitates explicit discussions and examinations of the nature of power and how it perpetuates the existing social order. Hence, in the case of race in education, it is imperative that racism is central to the analysis. Racism elucidates that which often goes ignored or unexplained by conventional scholars. Consequently, the critical demography paradigm fills an important void in the study of public education in American schools.
Contents Series Foreword Acknowledgements PART I: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN PERSPECTIVE Introduction: Critical Demography: Paradigm for the Post-Racial Era By Hayward Derrick Horton, Lori Latrice Martin, and Kenneth Fasching-Varner Chapter 1 Seventeen Years Later: Revisiting the Critical Demography Paradigm to Examine Public Education in American Schools By Geoffrey L. Wood Chapter 2 The Educational Plight of Black Men and Boys in Baton Rouge: A Critical Demography Perspective By Danielle Thomas, Derrick Lathan, Ashley Maryland, and Lori Latrice Martin PART II: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND K-12 Chapter 3 Detours to Destruction: A Critical Demography Perspective on the School-to-Prison Pipeline By Julia M.F. Schwartz, Nikisha Kelly, and Kimberly R. James Chapter 4 School Uniforms, Elementary Students-"Docile Bodies" By Shufang Yang Chapter 5 Opting-Out of Public Education as an Act of Racial Protectionism By Alice T. Crowe PART III: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY, NEOLIBERALISM AND HIGHER ED Chapter 6 Perceptions of Criminality: An Experiment on Race, Class, and Gender Stereotypes By Tricia Davis Chapter 7 "Has No Place:" The Adverse Effects of Brown vs. Board of Education on Black Students in United States Schools By Latrisha Y. Dean, Veta E. Parker, and Michael J. Seaberry Chapter 8 Immigrants as the Commodified Other: Xenoracism and Neoliberalism in The United States of (Non)citizens By Chau Vu
