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"Decades of 'adultcentric' research have led social scientists to deny the existence of racial awareness in young children. Yet children, even very young ones, are clearly able to understand sameness and difference, say sociologists Van Ausdale and Feagin after studying 58 children, three to six years old, in an urban nursery school."

"Those who teach with "political clarity" recognize that teaching is not a politically neutral undertaking. The authors advocate going beyond the narrow focus on method to a perspective that includes the sociohistorical and political dimensions of education."