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Growing Up White: A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Racism
Growing Up White is for everyone who wants to know more about our schools, our community, our country, and ourselves. Julie Landsman takes the reader on an inventory of her life, pulling from events and scenes, a set of lessons learned. She discloses honestly and unflinchingly the privileges she has experienced as a white person and connects those to her presence in city c...more
Hardcover, 184 pages
Published
August 28th 2008
by Rowman & Littlefield Education
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In her newest book, Julie Landsman looks unflinchingly at her life, from childhood through college, marriage, teaching and retirement. She recounts early experiences of race and racism, growing up in Connecticut, Massachusetts and, for a few years, in Texas. In college during the sixties, she began to engage issues of race -- and gender and class. Activism "lit a fire under me," she writes, and it is clear that the fire continues to burn.
Landsman's stories illuminate today's...more
Landsman's stories illuminate today's...more
A really moving account that moves back and forth between Landsman's life and the classroom. This one includes references to her college years in the Civil Rights movement as well as her recent travels to Nepal. (I really liked her previous book _A White Teacher Talks about Race_ as well as this one!). This movement between the autobiographical and the classroom is very effective and powerful. As she puts it--if she, as an upper-class white woman can connect with kids in diverse classrooms--...more
my aunt wrote this book
i have it sighned by her
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i have it sighned by her
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