This book examines the state of education in America using a critical lens that places the roles of race, racism, and neoliberalism at the center. The contributors analyze the tough challenges facing individuals, families, and communities while offering solutions for changing the trajectory of education in America.

Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgements
PART I: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN PERSPECTIVE
Introduction: Critical Demography: Paradigm for the Post-Racial Era
By Hayward Derrick Horton, Lori Latrice Martin, and Kenneth Fasching-Varner
Chapter 1
Seventeen Years Later: Revisiting the Critical Demography Paradigm to Examine Public Education in American Schools
By Geoffrey L. Wood
Chapter 2
The Educational Plight of Black Men and Boys in Baton Rouge: A Critical Demography Perspective
By Danielle Thomas, Derrick Lathan, Ashley Maryland, and Lori Latrice Martin

PART II: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND K-12

Chapter 3
Detours to Destruction: A Critical Demography Perspective on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
By Julia M.F. Schwartz, Nikisha Kelly, and Kimberly R. James
Chapter 4
School Uniforms, Elementary Students-"Docile Bodies"
By Shufang Yang
Chapter 5
Opting-Out of Public Education as an Act of Racial Protectionism
By Alice T. Crowe
PART III: CRITICAL DEMOGRAPHY, NEOLIBERALISM AND HIGHER ED
Chapter 6
Perceptions of Criminality: An Experiment on Race, Class, and Gender Stereotypes
By Tricia Davis
Chapter 7
"Has No Place:" The Adverse Effects of Brown vs. Board of Education on Black Students in United States Schools
By Latrisha Y. Dean, Veta E. Parker, and Michael J. Seaberry
Chapter 8
Immigrants as the Commodified Other: Xenoracism and Neoliberalism in
The United States of (Non)citizens
By Chau Vu

Hayward Derrick Horton is professor of sociology at University at Albany, State University of New York.
Lori Latrice Martin is associate professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Louisiana State University.
Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner is Shirley B. Barton Endowed associate professor at Louisiana State University.