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An Unexpected Minority is a thoughtful and engaged story of how race gets lived and negotiated in school. The book illuminates the persistent benefits of whiteness for white students, even in a setting where they are a numerical minority and also highlights the struggle for these same students to carve out a place for themselves in a setting where they are rendered problematic. - Amanda E. Lewis (author of Race in the Schoolyard) An enlightening analysis of the meaning and significance of whiteness in a setting where whites are the minority. Required reading for those committed to the pursuit of racial justice in education. - Pedro Noguera (professor of sociology, New York University) An unusually perceptive and interesting analysis of changing constructions of whiteness, and of the ways in which social class and gender may inflect perceptions of racial ethnicity. A significant contribution to the literature on schooling. - Barrie Thorne (author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School)

An Unexpected Minority is a thoughtful and engaged story of how race gets lived and negotiated in school. The book illuminates the persistent benefits of whiteness for white students, even in a setting where they are a numerical minority and also highlights the struggle for these same students to carve out a place for themselves in a setting where they are rendered problematic. -Amanda E. Lewis, author of Race in the Schoolyard

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Edward Morris is an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio University in Athens.

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