The roles of race and racism in explaining current controversies related to public schools in America is both understudied and misunderstood. Part of the problem is the absence of a critical paradigm that facilitates the development and application of ideas, theories, and methods that do not fit within the confines of mainstream scholarship. Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography-established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical demography necessitates explicit discussions and examinations of the nature of power and how it perpetuates the existing social order. Hence, in the case of race in education, it is imperative that racism is central to the analysis. Racism elucidates that which often goes ignored or unexplained by conventional scholars. Consequently, the critical demography paradigm fills an important void in the study of public education in American schools.

ContentsSeries ForewordAcknowledgementsPART I: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN PERSPECTIVEIntroduction: Critical Demography: Paradigm for the Post-Racial EraBy Hayward Derrick Horton, Lori Latrice Martin, and Kenneth Fasching-VarnerChapter 1Seventeen Years Later: Revisiting the Critical Demography Paradigm to Examine Public Education in American SchoolsBy Geoffrey L. WoodChapter 2The Educational Plight of Black Men and Boys in Baton Rouge: A Critical Demography PerspectiveBy Danielle Thomas, Derrick Lathan, Ashley Maryland, and Lori Latrice MartinPART II: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND K-12Chapter 3Detours to Destruction: A Critical Demography Perspective on the School-to-Prison PipelineBy Julia M.F. Schwartz, Nikisha Kelly, and Kimberly R. JamesChapter 4School Uniforms, Elementary Students-"Docile Bodies"By Shufang YangChapter 5Opting-Out of Public Education as an Act of Racial ProtectionismBy Alice T. CrowePART III: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY, NEOLIBERALISM AND HIGHER EDChapter 6Perceptions of Criminality: An Experiment on Race, Class, and Gender StereotypesBy Tricia DavisChapter 7"Has No Place:" The Adverse Effects of Brown vs. Board of Education on Black Students in United States SchoolsBy Latrisha Y. Dean, Veta E. Parker, and Michael J. SeaberryChapter 8Immigrants as the Commodified Other: Xenoracism and Neoliberalism inThe United States of (Non)citizensBy Chau Vu