Bøger af Dorothy C. Holland

From the fall of 1975 to the spring of 1977, as Grandin, a public school in North Carolina, was desegregating, four anthropologists carried out an ethnographic study of the fifth and sixth grade classes. Their research highlighted the interactional, cultural, and institutional processes of making race and race relations in the school.

What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult.