Contesting the Myth of a 'Post Racial' Era

Contents: Pedro A. Noguera: Foreword: Beyond the Postracial Society - Dorinda J. Carter Andrews/Frank Tuitt: Racism as the Environmental Hazard in Educational Spaces: An Overview and Introduction - Judson C. Laughter: «I Am My Brother's Keeper; I Am My Sister's Keeper»: Rejecting Meritocracy and Embracing Relational Pluralism - Bridgette Coble/Floyd Cobb/Kristin Deal/Frank Tuitt: Navigating the Space Between: Obama and the Postracial Myth - Louie F. Rodriguez: Learning From Catalina: Reflections on Bridging Communities and Schools in the Context of a «Postracial» Society - Laurence J. Parker/Erin L. Castro: An Introduction to Critical Race Realism: Theoretical and Methodological Implications for Education Research - Tuesda Roberts/Dorinda J. Carter Andrews: A Critical Race Analysis of the Gaslighting Against African American Teachers: Considerations for Recruitment and Retention - John B. Diamond: The Resource and Opportunity Gap: The Continued Significance of Race for African American Student Outcomes - María C. Ledesma/Daniel Solórzano: Naming Their Pain: How Everyday Racial Microaggressions Impact Students and Teachers - Tara M. Brown: The Racialization of Threat: Responding to the Punishment and Purging of Black and Latina/o Youth in School - María del Carmen Salazar: Disrupting the Standard Education Storyline for Latin@ Students Across the P-20 Educational System: Sustaining the Alma (Soul) of the Latin@ Community Through a Counterstory of Access to the Culture of Power and the Power of Culture - Bettie Ray Butler/Chance W. Lewis: African American Politics and Education: An Analysis of Electoral Structures, African American Representation, and Educational Outcomes - Walter R. Allen: Afterword.

Dorinda J. Carter Andrews (Ed.D., Harvard) is an associate professor in the department of teacher education and a core faculty member of the African American and African Studies program at Michigan State University. She is a co-editor of Legacies of Brown: Multiracial Equity in American Education (2005).
Franklin Tuitt (Ed.D., Harvard) is an associate professor of higher education in the Morgridge College of Education and Associate Provost for Inclusive Excellence at the University of Denver. Dr. Tuitt is a co-editor and contributing author of the book Race and Higher Education: Rethinking Pedagogy in Diverse College Classrooms (2003).