School Choice, Race and Social Anxiety

Based on a carefully contextualized and critical study, this book tells how France's dominant social and political ideology and prevailing cultural conventions abate the effects of race and anxiety within school choice, here focused on public-school middle-class parents living among immigrants in the diverse Paris suburbs.

Autorentext

Anthony E. Healy is visiting assistant professor at Emory University in Atlanta. A former journalist and consultant, he is author of a non-academic book, The Postindustrial Promise. The author's research interests lie in the juncture of families, education, and inequality.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. The Terrain of Choice

2. Policies and Practices of Choice

3. Choice as a Choice

4. Schooling as it Ought to be

5. Race as Imagined

6. Social Anxiety and School Choice

Conclusion