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April 17, 2008
A Seminar presented by Great Cities Institute and the
Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy |
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Maintaining Diversity in the Post-Civil
Rights Era:
An Action Research Ethnography |
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Pamela Anne Quiroz
Department of Policy Studies
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Room 110 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria Street
Chicago, IL 60607
RSVP
Appreciated: (312) 996-8700 |
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The dilemma of underrepresented youth and schooling has been
characterized as that of attachment and trust, where trust and caring relations between
students and adults must be developed prior to student attachment to the schooling
process (Steele, Perry, & Hilliard 2004; Valenzuela 1999; Stanton-Salazar, 2001).
Although we know that social networks of support in school are important in
creating positive relationships, we know little about what school structures facilitate them
or how they develop. This action research ethnography maps the development of social
networks and cross-generational relationships among African-American freshmen males and
their peers, parents, teachers, staff, college-student mentors, and university researchers
involved in a Chicago selective enrollment high school trying to meet the challenges of
diversity.
Pamela Anne Quiroz is an Associate Professor of Policy Studies and Sociology
at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Quiroz is a sociologist of education and her
work also focuses on inequality, identity, and trust. She is author of the book, Adoption in a
Color-Blind Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), which provides a critical interpretation
of the discursive practices of private adoption, particularly as these practices relate to race.
She is currently completing a manuscript on the evolution of personal advertising entitled Personal
Advertising: Building Trust in a Distrusting Society.
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