Set in the American community of Rivercrest in a multi-racial junior school, this text provides a portrait of the beliefs and understandings held by students, teachers and administrators with respect to issues such as race, social class and gender.

Carl Grant Hoefs-Bascom, Christine E. Sleeter

The community and the school; students' cultural knowledge about human diversity; the administrative team; the teachers; the students and classroom life; why students believed as they did; why the school operated the way it did; a critical appraisal of what happens after the school bell rings; high shool and abandoned dreams; a plan for action.