{"product_id":"a-moment-in-the-making-of-us-race-relations-an-ethnography-of-desegregating-an-urban-elementary-school-9781469649436","title":"A Moment in the Making of U.S. Race Relations: An Ethnography of Desegregating an Urban Elementary School","description":"In the fall of 1975 through the spring of 1977, as Grandin, an urban, public school in North Carolina, was desegregating, anthropologists Dorothy Holland, Margaret Eisenhart, Joe Harding, and Michael Livesay carried out an ethnographic study of the fifth and sixth grade classes. Their purpose was to understand how the students, teachers, administrators, parents, and other community members dealt with the requirement to desegregate their school. Originally published in 1978, their research relied on close-up methods that highlighted the interactional, cultural, and institutional processes of making race and race relations in the school. The book used the term \"social race\" to emphasize that race is a process. In today's expanded terminology, persons are raced (identified as racial) in social interactions and representations through positioning and discourse. Similarly race relations are made in day-to-day processes of interaction and meaning making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a specific historical case, the context at Grandin cannot be generalized to contemporary educational settings. Much about public schools has changed since the 1970s. Nonetheless, forty years later, the barriers to more positive race relations are strikingly similar: fraught interactions across differences in interpersonal styles; symbolic encounters that mean different things to different groups; provocative, hurtful terminologies; a veneer of harmony that masks serious difficulties with conflict resolution; and a virtual lack of opportunity and skills for frank discussions about experiences of racism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy C. Holland,Margaret Eisenhart,Joe R. Harding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unc Retired Faculty and Professionals Associa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469649436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Holland is Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is former Chair of Department, President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and Founding Director of the Certificate in Participatory Research. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, in 1974.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Eisenhart is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Educational Anthropology and Research at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe R. Harding is an applied anthropologist and data analyst. From 1974 to 1978, he was Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and President of Policy Research and Planning Group in Chapel Hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. Michael Livesay is a financial planner and investment advisor. Previously he worked as a social science researcher. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unc Retired Faculty and Professionals Associa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115629699187,"sku":"9781469649436","price":42.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_21aa49a5-52af-4095-8519-ec22de8815fa.jpg?v=1781788014","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-moment-in-the-making-of-us-race-relations-an-ethnography-of-desegregating-an-urban-elementary-school-9781469649436","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}