Learning Race, Learning Place - Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods

Informationen zum Autor ERIN N. WINKLER is an associate professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Klappentext This uses in-depth interviews with an economically diverse group of African American children and their mothers to reorient the way we look at how children develop their ideas about race. It shows the importance of considering this process from children's points of view and listening to their interpretations of their experiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Comprehensive Racial Learning, Grounded in Place2. Rhetoric versus Reality: Ambivalence about Race and Racism3. Racialized Place: Comprehensive Racial Learning through Travel4. Place Matters: Shaping Mothers' Messages5. Competing with Society: Responsive Racial Socialization6. Back Is Black? Gender, Skin Tone, and Comprehensive Racial Learning7. Conclusion: "I Learn Being Black from Everywhere I Go"NotesReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Erin Winkler, Erin N Winkler, Erin N. Winkler
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780813554297
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5429-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Series in Childhood Studies (P; Series in Childhood Studies (P; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore