Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities

An ambitious book on how schools, race, and the media intertwine in the twenty-first century

Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins opens this brilliant new book on race and education by describing how in her senior year at the Philadelphia High School for girls, near the end of a public school education that “had almost silenced me,” she was invited to deliver a graduation address on the meaning of the American flag. She refused to deliver the censored version her teacher demanded, and someone e...