How can we talk honestly about race? How can we make a classroom rigorous and exciting? There’s no better answer to both questions than this account of philosopher and college professor Larry Blum’s gutsy foray into teaching a public high school course on race and racism. There is much to learn from this book.       — Martha Minow, dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor, Harvard Law School

It is a formidable task to write a book about the fraught issue of race that both scholars and the general public will be engaged and inspired by. In this sophisticated yet accessible book, the distinguished philosopher Lawrence Blum has more than met the challenge.       — Tommie Shelby, professor of philosophy and African and African American studies, Harvard University

Blum is a sensitive and thoughtful author who has written a fascinating book. He clearly knows a lot about the history of race and how to talk and write about it. The combination of rich intellectual material and his description of life in the classroom is unique. High Schools, Race, and America’s Future will inspire a wide range of readers and serve as a model for those interested in teaching—or learning—about race.       — Ronald F. Ferguson, senior lecturer on education and public policy and faculty director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University

Blum has given us a rich description of an educational approach that contributes to the moral growth of students and positive social relations in larger society. Reading this impressive account of young people talking generously with each other about race—across racial lines—should renew our hope for a more genuinely democratic future.       — Nel Noddings, professor emerita, Stanford University

If the United States is to live up to its potential as the most racially and ethnically diverse democracy on the planet, we will need more classes like the one described in this book.       — Amy Stuart Wells, professor of sociology and education, Teachers College, Columbia University