In High Schools, Race, and America’s Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism.
Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students’ engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives.
Blum, an acclaimed moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects with candor, insight, and humor on the challenges and surprises encountered in teaching—the unexpected turns in conversation, the refreshing directness of students’ questions, the “aha” moments and the awkward ones, and the paradoxes of his own role as a white college professor teaching in a multiracial high school classroom.
High Schools, Race, and America’s Future provides an invaluable resource for those who want to teach students to think deeply and talk productively about race.
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Lawrence Blum is the Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education and a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has written extensively on race and racism, moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of education, moral education, multicultural education, philosophy and the Holocaust, race and film, moral emotions, and other topics. He is the author of four books—
Friendship, Altruism, and Morality (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980),
A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism (with V. J. Seidler) (Routledge, 1989),
Moral Per ception and Particularity (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and
“I’m Not a Racist, But . . .”: The Moral Quandary of Race (Cornell University Press, 2002), which was selected as the Social Philosophy Book of the Year by the North American Society for Social Philosophy. Blum has also taught at Teachers College, Stanford School of Education, and UCLA (in philosophy). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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