Nice Is Not Enough (eBook)

Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High

C. J. Pascoe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
264 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39675-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good.
 
Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from one high school's "regime of kindness" to underline how the culture operates as a Band-Aid on persistent inequalities. Through incisive storytelling and thoughtful engagement with students, this brilliant study by C.J. Pascoe exposes uncomfortable truths about American politics and our reliance on individual solutions instead of profound systemic change.
 
Nice Is Not Enough brings readers into American High, a middle- and working-class high school characterized by acceptance, connection, and kindness—a place where, a prominent sign states, "there is no room for hate." Here, inequality is narrowly understood as a problem of individual merit, meanness, effort, or emotion rather than a structural issue requiring deeper intervention. Surface-level sensitivity allows American High to avoid "political" topics related to social inequality based on race, sex, gender, or class. Being nice to each other, Pascoe reveals, does not serve these students or solve the broader issues we face; however, a true politics of care just might.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 
Preface 

1 No Room for Hate
2 The Politics of Protection 
3 Love and Justice at American High 
4 When Powder Puff Becomes Power Tough 
5 The Philanthropic Class 
6 The Politics of Care 

Appendix 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: avoidance • best intentions • Bullying • Discrimination • Education • High School Culture • oregon school district • parenting • Politics of protection • progressive community • Queer Studies • Racism • Social norms • student protest • systemic inequality • Values
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39675-8 / 0520396758
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39675-3 / 9780520396753