Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michelle Fine and Lois Weiss
PART I: STRUCTURING SILENCE: POLICIES AND PRACTICE
1. Breaking through the Barriers: African American Job Candidates and the Academic Hiring Process
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, and Melvin L. Oliver
2. Gifted Education and the Protection of Privilege: Breaking the Silence, Opening the Discourse
Mara Sapon-Shevin
3. Testing and Minorities
Walter Haney
4. Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire
Michelle Fine
5. Empowering Minority Students: A Framework for Intervention
Jim Cummins
6. The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
Lisa D. Delpit
PART II: FROM THE MARGINS TO THE CENTER: BEYOND SILENCED VOICES
7. Joining the Resistance: Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women
Carol Gilligan
8. Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction
Linda K. Christian-Smith
9. Disruptions: Improper Masculinities and Schooling
R. W. Connell
10. Choices, Not Closets: Heterosexism and Homophobia in Schools
Richard A. Friend
11. White Male Working-Class Youth: An Explorations of Relative Privilege and Loss
Lois Weis
12. Dropouts and the Silencing of Critical Voices
Robert B. Stevenson and Jeanne Ellsworth
13. Resisting Racism: Personal Testimonies of African-American Teachers
Michele Foster
14. Constructing Race at an Urban High School: In Their Minds, Their Mouths, Their Hearts
Jody Cohen
15. The College Experience of Native Americans: A Critical Analysis
William G. Tierney
16. Beyond the Poverty of Theory in Race Relations: Nonsynchrony and Social Difference in Education
Cameron McCarthy
Notes
Contributors
Index