Christopher B. Knaus is Professor of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma. A respected race scholar, educational practitioner, and community advocate, Dr. Knaus is committed to the non-standardization of schools, cultures, and public spaces. He is the author of the celebrated
school-based book project Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing That Counts in Urban Schools.
M. Christopher Brown II is Executive Vice President and Provost of the Southern University System. Regarded as an international scholar, Dr. Brown is known for his studies of historically black colleges, university governance, educational equity, professorial responsibilities, and institutional contexts. He earned the Phillip Chinn Book Award for The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics.
Contents: - Whiteness and the Hegemony of Apartheid in the Quest for Educational Equality - Making the Invisible Visible: Post-Apartheid Schools in South Africa - Liphi Igumbi Langasese (Where Is the Toilet?): Documenting Racial Disparities in Schools - Systemic Disparities, Differential Realities: School Principals on South African Education - Can Umlungu (a White Person) Save Us?: Outside-In Education in the New South Africa - A Colorless Rainbow: Nonracialism in the New South Africa - The New South Africa: Building Blocks for Sustainable Transformation.