High Schools Race and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality Diversity and Community

About this book

In High Schools Race and Americas 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 teachingthe 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 Americas Future provides an invaluable resource for those who want to teach students to think deeply and talk productively about race.