A Moment in the Making of U.S. Race Relations
An Ethnography of Desegregating an Urban Elementary School
By Dorothy C. Holland, Margaret Eisenhart, Joe R. Harding, J. Michael Livesay
412 pp., 8.5 x 11, appends., notes
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4943-6
Published: January 1978
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As a specific historical case, the context at Grandin cannot be generalized to contemporary educational settings. Much about public schools has changed since the 1970s. Nonetheless, forty years later, the barriers to more positive race relations are strikingly similar: fraught interactions across differences in interpersonal styles; symbolic encounters that mean different things to different groups; provocative, hurtful terminologies; a veneer of harmony that masks serious difficulties with conflict resolution; and a virtual lack of opportunity and skills for frank discussions about experiences of racism.
About the Authors
Dorothy Holland is Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is former Chair of Department, President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and Founding Director of the Certificate in Participatory Research. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, in 1974.
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Margaret Eisenhart is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Educational Anthropology and Research at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980.
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Joe R. Harding is an applied anthropologist and data analyst. From 1974 to 1978, he was Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and President of Policy Research and Planning Group in Chapel Hill.
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J. Michael Livesay is a financial planner and investment advisor. Previously he worked as a social science researcher. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984.
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