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What can teachers, administrators, families, and communities do to create schools that provide rich learning experiences for African American children? Based on a critical reinterpretation of several key educational frameworks, African-Centered Pedagogy is a practical guide to accomplished teaching. Murrell suggests integrating the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a unified system of instruction, bringing to light those practices that already exist and linking them to contemporary ideas and innovations that concern effective practice in African American communities. This is then applied through a case study analysis of a school seeking to incorporate the unified theory and embrace African-centered practice. Murrell argues that key educational frameworks—although currently ineffective with African American children—hold promise if reinterpreted.

Afrocentrism --- African Americans --- Afrocentricity --- Civilization, Western --- Ethnocentrism --- Negritude --- Study and teaching --- Race identity. --- Education. --- African influences --- Ethnic identity

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Blacks --- Africans --- African Americans --- Negritude --- Ethnology --- Negroes --- Race identity --- Ethnic identity. --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Black persons --- Black people

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Blacks --- Black race. --- Archéologie --- Négritude --- Noirs --- Race noire. --- Identité ethnique. --- Egypt --- Afrique noire --- Égypte --- Antiquities. --- Civilization --- Civilisation. --- Antiquités. --- Civilisation --- Africa --- Antiquities --- Catalogs

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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together they provide a compelling response to our nation's most vexing problem. Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race. He draws on the scholarly consensus that "race" has no legitimate biological basis, exploring the history of its invention as a social category and showing how the concept has been used to explain differences among groups of people by mistakenly attributing various "essences" to them. Appiah argues that, while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life. Gutmann examines alternative political responses to racial injustice. She argues that American politics cannot be fair to all citizens by being color blind because American society is not color blind. Fairness, not color blindness, is a fundamental principle of justice. Whether policies should be color-conscious, class conscious, or both in particular situations, depends on an open-minded assessment of their fairness. Exploring timely issues of university admissions, corporate hiring, and political representation, Gutmann develops a moral perspective that supports a commitment to constitutional democracy. Appiah and Gutmann write candidly and carefully, presenting many-faceted interpretations of a host of controversial issues. Rather than supplying simple answers to complex questions, they offer to citizens of every color principled starting points for the ongoing national discussions about race.

Whites --- African Americans --- Racism --- Race awareness --- Negritude --- Race identity --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- White people

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Can White parents teach their Black children African American culture and history? Can they impart to them the survival skills necessary to survive in the racially stratified United States? Concerns over racial identity have been at the center of controversies over transracial adoption since the 1970's, as questions continually arise about whether White parents are capable of instilling a positive sense of African American identity in their Black children. ""[An] empathetic study of meanings of cross-racial adoption to adoptees"". -Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 11, No. 11, Nov. 2001.

Adoption --- African Americans --- Adoptees --- Interracial adoption --- Child placing --- Foster home care --- Parent and child --- Negritude --- Adopted persons --- Adult adoptees --- Government policy --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity