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Ranita Ray

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Dr. Ranita Ray is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, where she holds an endowed chair. For 15 years, her award-winning research program has centered on children & youth, education, and gender and racial injustice. She spends long periods of times in places to write about them.

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Slow Violence: Confronting ...

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Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
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Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
"Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom by Ranita Ray (book cover is in image) exposes how marginalized children in the public school system are impacted by the prejudices and behaviors of those who are charged with caring for them.

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Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
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Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
"This is a nonfiction book that focuses on systemic racism that exists within the US school system. I am a Black woman who grew up in Detroit and a proud graduate of the Detroit Public School system. I'm extremely familiar with how racism and the scho" Read more of this review »
Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
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Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
"This is a must read for any parent of a non-white child in any Public School in/or connected to the U.S. ( There are American schools overseas.)
Until fairly recently, the social science shelves in bookstores and libraries nationwide have been crammed" Read more of this review »
Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
" Thank you, Kara, for this incisive and generous review. "
Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
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Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom by Ranita Ray

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Nonfiction • Education • Sociology • Social Justice

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Slow Violence by Ranita Ray
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Five Star White Trash by Georgiann Davis
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This memoir is one of the best interrogations of whiteness, class and gender. Davis takes us, through incisive commentary, inside jails and hospitals as she tells the gripping story of her childhood.
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