The color of strangers, the color of friends : the play of ethnicity in school and community /

In his most recent work, Peshkin, prominent educator and prolific writer ( God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School , LJ 3/15/86), focuses on ethnic problems in a school and its community. He reports the results of a year-long study of a high school community he calls ``Riverview.'' Riverview is a relatively poor town populated by Sicilians, Mexicans, blacks, Filipinos, Asians, and others. The school, marked by low academic achievement and once racked by the ethnic turmoil and riots of the 1960s, remarkably achieved ethnic peace and tranquility in intergroup relationships during the 1980s. Peshkin's research is thorough and his analyses perceptive. His book can serve as a manual for school administrators in similar situations, and should be in all subject collections.-- Shirley L. Hopkinson, San Jose State Univ., Cal. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.