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An Unexpected Minority : White Kids in an Urban School, Paperback / softback Book

An Unexpected Minority : White Kids in an Urban School Paperback / softback

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Racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States have been growing rapidly in recent decades.

Projections based on census data indicate that, in coming years, white people will statistically dominate noticeably fewer regions and public spaces.

How will this reversal of minority status affect ideas about race?

In spaces dominated by people of color, will attitudes about white privilege change? Or, will deeply rooted beliefs about racial inequality be resilient to numerical shifts in strength?

In An Unexpected Minority, sociologist Edward Morris addresses these far-reaching questions by exploring attitudes about white identity in a Texas middle school composed predominantly of African Americans, Latinos, and Asians.

Based on his ethnographic research, Morris argues that lower-income white students in urban schools do not necessarily maintain the sort of white privilege documented in other settings.

Within the student body, African American students were more frequently the "cool" kids, and white students adopted elements of black culture-including dress, hairstyle, and language-to gain acceptance.

Morris observes, however, that racial inequalities were not always reversed.

Stereotypes that cast white students as better behaved and more academically gifted were often reinforced, even by African American teachers. Providing a new and timely perspective to the significant role that non-whites play in the construction of attitudes about whiteness, this book takes an important step in advancing the discussion of racial inequality and its future in this country.

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