" ... based on lectures delivered at Simmons College in 2008"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236).
Contents
What does the flag mean to you?: education and democratic possibilities -- Social blackness, honorary whiteness, and all points in between: color-blind racism as a system of power -- Would you know it if you saw it?: practicing resistance in a seemingly color-blind society -- Somebody's watching you: to be young, sexy, and black.
Summary
Presents an argument in favor of greater public awareness and advocacy of a greater balance of democracy in public education that challenges young people of color to overcome continuing practices of institutional discrimination.