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Emdin (science education, Teachers Coll., Columbia Univ.; Inst. for Urban and Minority Education) builds on his previous book, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, and proposes methods of teaching and learning that welcome and nurture students of color. He writes that modern schooling should encourage behaviors and identities that it has historically vilified and sought to eradicate, especially among Black students. The book's title refers particularly to the dismissal of ratchet identity in whiteness-centered schooling; Emdin defines ratchet identity as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More