Shut Those Thick Lips: A Study of Slum School Failure - Softcover

Rosenfeld, Gerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881330221 ISBN 13: 9780881330229

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 1983

Synopsis

The realities of prejudice and denied opportunity! Ethnographically focused on the urban black community of Harlem in New York City, this study gives the reader a clear idea of what it means to go to a slum school and to be a black child, as well as why the achievement of minority children is low. A realistic assessment of the interaction between the teachers and students is given: teachers see children as uneducable; children see teachers as hostile, the school as forbidding, the experience as limiting and destructive. The author shows how, as a teacher in the very school he describes, he captured some of the energy produced out of frustration and in so doing demonstrated potentials for learning that are usually assumed to be absent among children of the poor.

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From the Publisher:

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Dei, Ties That Bind: Youth and Drugs in a Black Community (ISBN 1577661990); Kawagley, A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit, Second Edition (ISBN 1577663845); Philips, The Invisible Culture: Communication in Classroom and Community on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation (ISBN 0881336947); Singer, The Face of Social Suffering: The Life History of a Street Drug Addict (ISBN 1577664329); and Spindler, Education and Cultural Process: Anthropological Approaches, Third Edition (ISBN 088133958X).

About this edition

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0881330221
• ISBN 13: 9780881330229
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 120