Critical Race, Feminism, and Education: A Social Justice Model
by Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt

Critical Race, Feminism, and Education provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship. Focusing on praxis, the relationship between the construction of race, class, and gender categories and social justice outcomes is analyzed. An applied transdisciplinary model – integrating law, sociology, history, and social movement theory – demonstrates how marginalized groups are oppressed by ideologies of power and privilege in the legal system, the education system, and the media. Pratt-Clarke documents the effects of racism, patriarchy, classism, and nationalism on Black females and males in the single-sex school debate.

“Menah Pratt-Clarke’s study represents one of the most thorough integrations of the law, feminism, sociology and African American studies; her approach is a roadmap for implementing more equitable educational and public policy. Let’s hope those who institute such policies are savvy enough to pick up this book, read it, and go about the urgent business of reshaping America’s future. – Denean Sharpely-Whiting, Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University, USA, and author of Pimps Up, Ho’s Down”