Distinctions and convergences: a brief history of race and education in the United States and South Africa -- Selecting "good" schools in the U.S. and South Africa -- Paradoxes of opportunity: resources, boundaries, and organizational-racial habitus -- Student cultural flexibility: the (un) making of multicultural navigators -- The more things change, the more threatening they feel: white youths' attitudes on equity -- Equity and empathy: growing equality of opportunity -- Stubborn roots: weeding out educational inequality
Summary
The author shows how school communities can better incorporate previously disadvantaged groups and engender equity by addressing socio-cultural contexts and promoting 'cultural flexibility'. She also raises timely questions about the social, political, and philosophical purposes of multiracial schooling that have been greatly ignored by many, and cautions against narrow approaches to education that merely focus on test-scores and resources
