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This reference work employs historical, anthropological, sociological, and theoretical perspectives to overview current information on class, culture, and race in U.S. schools.

The volume is organized systematically, with broad sections on class, culture, race, and prospects for the future.

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American schools in urban areas have received much attention. The volume is divided into several parts devoted to historical, political, and social dimensions of urban schooling. The volume considers the place of schools in urban society and analyzes their mission and how they have changed, or failed to change, to meet modern needs.

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Argues that schools in capitalist societies inculculate students with understandings of themselves and their economic systems. It illustrates how individuals are indoctrinated with capitalist ideology through linguistic and cultural transmissions.

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This work introduces the concept of the Voice of the Other and the intersubjective world it creates for humans. Even family and school relationships are structured in language and the social formations that language created in the past.