The Edge of Race Critical examinations of education and race/racism [Paperback]

The phrase the edge of race can be used both as a description and as a response to two key concerns. The first of these is that while race is increasingly on the periphery of education policy  with a growing disregard shown for racist inequities, as education systems become dominated by market-driven concerns  it is important that we map the shifting relations of race in neoliberal politics and policies. The second concern is that at this time, within and outside the spaces of the academy, even to mention race equity is to risk condemnation, marginalization, and ridicule.

The authors in this collection use the edge of race as a provocation in order to examine the concepts, methodologies, policies, politics, processes, and practices associated with race and racism in education. The chapters offer empirical examples of the perpetuation and perniciousness of racism that point to the continued salience of research about race. Additionally, the chapters make contributions to conceptual and methodological understandings of race and racism. The contributors illustrate the contingency, productivity, and fragility of race as a concept, and point to how educational research continues to be a contested site in, and from which to study, race and education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Introduction  The edge of race: critical examinations of education and race/racism Kalervo N. Gulson, Zeus Leonardo and David Gillborn

1. Interest-divergence and the colour of cutbacks: race, recession and the undeclared war on Black children David Gillborn

2. A political investment: revisiting race and racism in the research process Nicola Rollock

3. Race talk and school equity in local print media: the discursive flexibility of whiteness and the promise of race-conscious talk Sofil£³