Why is our education system unequal? How does race play a part? Is Britain still institutionally racist? Education remains the greatest indicator of life chances in Britain. What we study, where we study, and how long for shape all aspects of our lives. Our careers, our long-term health, our wealth and security are all moulded in the classroom. But who we are ultimately matters the most. In Race and Education, Professor Kalwant Bhopal shows how race still determines who gains the best education in Britain, and who falls by the wayside. Through case studies, original research and interviews with students, teachers, and academics alike, she reveals how the construction of privilege starts at a young age: with Whiteness taking some students on a gilded path from cradle to career, while many still struggle to build the futures they deserve. This book highlights how classrooms and lecture halls are at the centre of perpetuating white privilege - and how racism continues to exist in Britain.

Race and Education: Reproducing White Supremacy in Britain (Pelican)

Bhopal, Kalwant

Politics & Social Sciences

Pelican

Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege

- Delivers a unique and original perspective that explores how students navigate elite universities by focussing on their race and class backgrounds. - It provides an original, comparative account of how students are positioned as graduates in elite universities. It will specifically highlight how students' prior experiences have had a significant impact on their experiences at elite universities. - By using Bourdieu and CRT, the book will provide a unique theoretical perspective on how inequalities are reproduced and perpetuated for some groups and not others.

Myers, Martin

Social Sciences

Routledge

Providing an extraordinary picture of the inner workings of elite universities, Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege draws on current debates on education and inequality and considers the relevance of universities’ global brand identities. 
Using the work of Bourdieu and critical race theory to explore how identity, experience and family background affects how people navigate the social space of the university, this book is underpinned with empirical research that considers different social, economic and educational contexts. Using interview accounts of graduate students, this book highlights ambiguities in how eliteness works as both a recognisable marker of institutional status and a marker that is rarely quantified or defined. 
Combining intellectually rigorous, accessible and controversial chapters, Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege is crucial reading for anyone looking to understand how race and class affect those navigating elite universities.

Home Schooling and Home Education: Race, Class and Inequality (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education)

Sociology

Connecting Children

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives change dramatically, such as when parents divorce or are unable to care for them.  This book will be of interest to those working in education, social work, child care, counselling, social policy and childhood studies.

Connecting Children: Care and Family Life in Later Childhood

Brannen, Julia

Heptinstall, Ellen

The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics: A comparative study of the unequal academy (Routledge Research in Higher Education)

Recent research suggests that Black and minority ethnic (BME) academics remain underrepresented, particularly at senior levels in higher education, and tend to be concentrated in new, post-1992 universities. This book provides an original comparative study of BME academics in both the UK and the USA, two different yet similar cultural and political climates, considering issues of inequality, difference and identity in the Academy. Presenting a distinctive and engaging voice, the book discusses the complexity of race, gender and identity in the context of higher education, an area that continues to appear to be dominated by white, middle class values and perspectives. Chapters offer an up-to-date commentary on the purpose, failures and potential of research on race, gender and identity, and its place within contemporary education and sociology. The book broadens the understanding of educational research, considering both sociological and cultural discourse, as well as examining racialized and gendered identities from a theoretical and analytical standpoint. The book closes by offering suggestions for viable policy shifts in this area.
The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics will be of key interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the field of education, as well as sociologists wanting to learn more about black and minority academics in higher education.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Gender, 'Race' and Patriarchy: A Study of South Asian Women (Routledge Revivals)

The book offers one of the first detailed studies of South Asian women, it provides new empirical data on the issues apparent in South Asian women's lives by 'giving voice' to a group of women who would otherwise remain silent. It is based upon an ethnographic study of a small South Asian community in an inner city. The book offers a new and compelling account of South Asian women, as well as focussing on the ways in which gender and 'race' interact in women’s lives. The book offers an important theoretical contribution to the area of feminist theory. The concept of patriarchy is contested and reworked and applied to the study of South Asian women and their cultural experiences. In this sense, practices such as arranged marriages, dowries, domestic labour and domestic finance are analyzed as different influences of patriarchy inside the household, as well as education and the labour market as influences of patriarchy outside the household.

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Race and Education: Reproducing White Supremacy in Britain (Pelican)

Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege

Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege

Home Schooling and Home Education: Race, Class and Inequality (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education)

Connecting Children: Care and Family Life in Later Childhood

Connecting Children

The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics: A comparative study of the unequal academy (Routledge Research in Higher Education)

The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics: A comparative study of the unequal academy (Routledge Research in Higher Education)

Connecting Children: Care and Family Life in Later Childhood

Gender, 'Race' and Patriarchy: A Study of South Asian Women (Routledge Revivals)