The Color of Strangers, the Color of Friends

The Color of Strangers, the Color of Friends

Author: Alan Peshkin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991-06-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780226662015

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"Outrage is a matter of history in Riverview and Riverview High School (RHS), the setting for this study of a multiethnic school and community."--Preface, p. ix.


Make Your Home Among Strangers

Make Your Home Among Strangers

Author: Jennine Capó Crucet

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1250059666

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A young, Cuban-American woman is accepted into an elite college right as her home life unravels.


The Contemporary African American Novel

The Contemporary African American Novel

Author: Emine Lâle Demirtürk

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1611475309

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This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the "neo-urban novel," and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in a racial context is important in considering diverse forms of the lived reality of black everyday life in the novelistic representations of the white dominant urban order. African American fictional representations of the city have political significance in that the "neo-urban novel" explores the nature of the American society at large. This book explores the need to understand how whiteness works, what it forecloses, and what it occasionally opens up in everyday life in American society.


The Fascinating World of Graph Theory

The Fascinating World of Graph Theory

Author: Arthur Benjamin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0691175632

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The history, formulas, and most famous puzzles of graph theory Graph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs—mathematical structures showing relations between objects. With applications in biology, computer science, transportation science, and other areas, graph theory encompasses some of the most beautiful formulas in mathematics—and some of its most famous problems. The Fascinating World of Graph Theory explores the questions and puzzles that have been studied, and often solved, through graph theory. This book looks at graph theory's development and the vibrant individuals responsible for the field's growth. Introducing fundamental concepts, the authors explore a diverse plethora of classic problems such as the Lights Out Puzzle, and each chapter contains math exercises for readers to savor. An eye-opening journey into the world of graphs, The Fascinating World of Graph Theory offers exciting problem-solving possibilities for mathematics and beyond.


The Color of Life

The Color of Life

Author: Cara Meredith

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0310353009

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In this spiritual memoir, a white woman in an interracial marriage and mixed-race family paints a beautiful path from white privilege toward racial healing, from ignorance toward seeing the image of God in everyone she meets. Author and speaker Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to do with her, and she was ignorant of many of the racial realities (including individual and systemic racism) in America today. A colorblind rhetoric had been stamped across her education, world view, and Christian theology. Then as an adult, Cara's life took on new, colorful hues. She realized that white people in her generation, seeking to move beyond ancestral racism, had swung so far in believing a colorblind rhetoric that they tried to act as if they didn't see race at all. When Cara met and fell in love with the son of black icon, James Meredith, the power of love helped her see color. She began to notice the shades of life already present in the world around her, while also learning to listen in new ways to black voices of the past. After she married and their little family grew to include two mixed-race sons, Cara knew she would never see the world through a colorless lens again. Cara Meredith's journey will serve as an invitation into conversations of justice, race, and privilege, asking key questions, such as: What does it mean to navigate ongoing and desperately needed conversations of race and justice? What does it mean for white people to listen and learn from the realities our black and brown brothers and sisters face every day? What does it mean to teach the next generation a theology of justice, reconciliation, and love? What does it mean to dig into the stories of our past, both historically and theologically, to see the imago Dei in everyone? Plus, Cara offers an extensive Notes and Recommended Reading section at the end of the book, so you can continue learning, listening, and engaging in this important conversation.


Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender

Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender

Author: Sarah Marie Stitzlein

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0742563588

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This book examines actual classroom events of racial and gender discord. It employs the theoretical lenses of pragmatism, whitenes studies, critical race theory, and poststructuralism to offer an original analysis of how students come to embody their races and genders through schooling practices. Finally, it offers a pathway out of racism and sexism through the cultivation of flexible habits of identity.


Race and Education, 1954-2007

Race and Education, 1954-2007

Author: Raymond Wolters

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0826266711

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"Retracing Supreme Court decisions on race and education beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Wolters distinguishes between desegregation and integration and shows how devastating educational and cultural consequences resulted from subsequent Supreme Court decisions that conflated the two and led to racial balancing policies that have backfired"--Provided by publisher.


Discrete Mathematics

Discrete Mathematics

Author: Gary Chartrand

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 685

ISBN-13: 1478608323

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Chartrand and Zhangs Discrete Mathematics presents a clearly written, student-friendly introduction to discrete mathematics. The authors draw from their background as researchers and educators to offer lucid discussions and descriptions fundamental to the subject of discrete mathematics. Unique among discrete mathematics textbooks for its treatment of proof techniques and graph theory, topics discussed also include logic, relations and functions (especially equivalence relations and bijective functions), algorithms and analysis of algorithms, introduction to number theory, combinatorics (counting, the Pascal triangle, and the binomial theorem), discrete probability, partially ordered sets, lattices and Boolean algebras, cryptography, and finite-state machines. This highly versatile text provides mathematical background used in a wide variety of disciplines, including mathematics and mathematics education, computer science, biology, chemistry, engineering, communications, and business. Some of the major features and strengths of this textbook Numerous, carefully explained examples and applications facilitate learning. More than 1,600 exercises, ranging from elementary to challenging, are included with hints/answers to all odd-numbered exercises. Descriptions of proof techniques are accessible and lively. Students benefit from the historical discussions throughout the textbook.