Beyond silenced voices: class, race, and gender in United States schools

Introduction / Michelle Fine and Lois Weis – Part I. Structuring silence: Policies and practices

Breaking through the barriers: African American job candidates and the academic hiring process / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, and Melvin L. Oliver

Gifted education and the protection of privilege: Breaking the silence, opening the discourse / Mara Sapon-Shevin

Testing and minorities / Walter Haney

Sexuality, schooling, and adolescent females: The missing discourse of desire / Michelle Fine

Empowering minority students: A framework for intervention / Jim Cummins

The silenced dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people's children / Lisa D. Delpit – Part II. From the margins to the centers beyond silenced voices

Joining the resistance: Psychology, politics, girls, and women / Carol Gilligan

Voices of resistance: Young women readers of romance fiction / Linda K. Christian-Smith

Disruptions: Improper masculinities and schooling / R.W. Connell

Choices, not closets: Heterosexism and homophobia in schools / Richard A. Friend

White male working-class youth: An exploration of relative privilege and loss / Lois Weis

Dropouts and the silencing of critical voices / Robert D. Stevenson and Jeanne Ellsworth

Resisting racism: Personal testimonies of African-American teachers / Michele Foster

Constructing race at an urban high school: In their minds, their mouths, their hearts / Jody Cohen

The college experience of Native Americans: A critical analysis / William G. Tierney

Beyond the poverty of theory in race relations: Nonsynchrony and social difference in education / Cameron McCarthy.