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Racial and classed inequalities in education are relational, yet they are too often studied separately.
This edited volume tackles the interlocking systems of disadvantage linked to race and class that shape learning experiences across different stages of education. Through a Bourdieusian lens, the chapters reveal how policy, pedagogy and everyday practice reproduce or challenge inequities, offering new ways to understand inclusion and belonging in diverse educational spaces.
This is a must-read for educators, researchers and policymakers committed to combatting educational inequalities and promoting equity and social justice.
“A timely and insightful collection that offers a nuanced Bourdieusian lens on how educational inequalities are reproduced and negotiated. Using rich case studies from diverse national contexts, the authors contextualise social reproduction theories and practices in contemporary education, with an important and deliberate focus on race and class inequalities, highlighting the intersectional, relational and structural conditions of exclusion and belonging. An important contribution to the sociology of education, with clear relevance for researchers, educators and policymakers.” Billy Wong, University of Reading
Utsa Mukherjee is Senior Lecturer in Education at Brunel University of London.
Kate Hoskins is Reader in Public Policy at King’s College London.
1. Introduction: Debating Racial and Classed Inequalities in Education - Utsa Mukherjee and Kate Hoskins
2. Understanding Disadvantage in English Primary Schools: An Intersectional Perspective - Ammal Gillani
3. Exploring the Dual Characteristics of Race and Class: Advancing Equality Through Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in England - Asma Lebbakhar and Kate Hoskins
4. The Effect of Educational Support Programmes on Identity and Habitus Formations Among Racialised Minority Roma FIF Graduates in Hungary - Judit Durst and Nyírő Zsanna
5. Indigenous Capital, Higher Education, and Beyond: Rethinking Social Mobility Through Collective Agency and Cultural Wealth in Chile - Denisse Sepúlveda Sánchez
6. Conflating Class and Race: How Students Experience Racialised Class Divides at a Chilean Elite University - Paulina Rodriguez Anaiz
7. Postgraduate Student Narratives of Class, Race and Learning in a Multicultural Learning Space - Mili and Emma Towers
8. “I Want to Give My Children Opportunities I Didn’t Have”: Compensatory Leisure-Based Parenting and Educational Strategies of Middle-Class British Indians Parents – Utsa Mukherjee
9. Conclusion: Racial and Classed Inequalities in Education: Methods, Theory and Practice - Kate Hoskins and Utsa Mukherjee