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Balis, Andrea; Aman, Michael – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
Can race and assimilation be taught? Interdisciplinary pedagogy provides a methodology, context, and use of nontraditional texts culled from American cultural history such as from, theater and historical texts. This approach and these texts prove useful for an examination of race and assimilation in America. The paper describes a course that while…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Urban Universities, Race, Popular Culture
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Brown, Amy – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
The narrative of gendered White savior in urban classrooms is ubiquitous not only in film (Smith, 1995, LaGravenese, 2007), but also in popular and academic literature. White female teachers are at the front of the majority of increasingly privatized U.S. classrooms (Pickower, 2009, Cochran-Smith, 2004). This article ethnographically critiques the…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Whites, Females