Angelina E. Castagno is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University, USA. Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in American Indian Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART 1—SITUATING THE FIELD Finding the Practice in Education Policy—A Disciplinary Genealogy Teresa L. McCarty and Angelina E. Castagno Theoretical Foundations for a Critical Anthropology of Education PolicyBradley A. Levinson, Teresa Winstead, and Margaret Sutton What Does an Anthropologist of Educational Policy Do? Methodological ConsiderationsEdmund T. Hamann and Thiru VandeyarPART 2—EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND CONTESTATION IN THE U.S. Producing Policy Prescriptions in a "Persistently Low-Achieving" School Jill Koyama Studying Educational Policy through its Dissenters: The Anthropology of U.S. Educational Policy Contestation Jen Sandler The Ambiguous Political Power of Liberal School ReformAmanda LashawPART 3—RACED, AND RACING, EDUCATION POLICY The (In)Flexibility of Racial Policies: Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow SouthStacey J. Lee DREAMers and DACAmented students in U.S. Higher Education: Toward a Critical Race Anthropology of Education PolicyCarol E. Johnson and Angelina E. Castagno Along Ghostly Grains: Toward an Ethnography of PolicySabina E. Vaught and Gabrielle Orum HernándezPART 4—LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND EXCLUSIONARY EDUCATION POLICY "Safe" versus "Dangerous" Policy Processes in Urban Public Schooling: The Case of Native American Education in ArizonaCynthia Benally Policy Practices and State Effects: A Comparative Analysis of Social Inequality, Language Diversity, and Education Policy in South Africa and the United StatesJames Collins Language Sequestration and Public Education: A View from the New Language Policy StudiesTeresa L. McCartyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Angelina E. Castagno is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University, USA. Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in American Indian Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART 1—SITUATING THE FIELD Finding the Practice in Education Policy—A Disciplinary Genealogy Teresa L. McCarty and Angelina E. Castagno Theoretical Foundations for a Critical Anthropology of Education PolicyBradley A. Levinson, Teresa Winstead, and Margaret Sutton What Does an Anthropologist of Educational Policy Do? Methodological ConsiderationsEdmund T. Hamann and Thiru VandeyarPART 2—EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND CONTESTATION IN THE U.S. Producing Policy Prescriptions in a "Persistently Low-Achieving" School Jill Koyama Studying Educational Policy through its Dissenters: The Anthropology of U.S. Educational Policy Contestation Jen Sandler The Ambiguous Political Power of Liberal School ReformAmanda LashawPART 3—RACED, AND RACING, EDUCATION POLICY The (In)Flexibility of Racial Policies: Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow SouthStacey J. Lee DREAMers and DACAmented students in U.S. Higher Education: Toward a Critical Race Anthropology of Education PolicyCarol E. Johnson and Angelina E. Castagno Along Ghostly Grains: Toward an Ethnography of PolicySabina E. Vaught and Gabrielle Orum HernándezPART 4—LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND EXCLUSIONARY EDUCATION POLICY "Safe" versus "Dangerous" Policy Processes in Urban Public Schooling: The Case of Native American Education in ArizonaCynthia Benally Policy Practices and State Effects: A Comparative Analysis of Social Inequality, Language Diversity, and Education Policy in South Africa and the United StatesJames Collins Language Sequestration and Public Education: A View from the New Language Policy StudiesTeresa L. McCartyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Angelina E. Castagno is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University, USA. Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in American Indian Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART 1—SITUATING THE FIELD Finding the Practice in Education Policy—A Disciplinary Genealogy Teresa L. McCarty and Angelina E. Castagno Theoretical Foundations for a Critical Anthropology of Education PolicyBradley A. Levinson, Teresa Winstead, and Margaret Sutton What Does an Anthropologist of Educational Policy Do? Methodological ConsiderationsEdmund T. Hamann and Thiru VandeyarPART 2—EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND CONTESTATION IN THE U.S. Producing Policy Prescriptions in a "Persistently Low-Achieving" School Jill Koyama Studying Educational Policy through its Dissenters: The Anthropology of U.S. Educational Policy Contestation Jen Sandler The Ambiguous Political Power of Liberal School ReformAmanda LashawPART 3—RACED, AND RACING, EDUCATION POLICY The (In)Flexibility of Racial Policies: Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow SouthStacey J. Lee DREAMers and DACAmented students in U.S. Higher Education: Toward a Critical Race Anthropology of Education PolicyCarol E. Johnson and Angelina E. Castagno Along Ghostly Grains: Toward an Ethnography of PolicySabina E. Vaught and Gabrielle Orum HernándezPART 4—LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND EXCLUSIONARY EDUCATION POLICY "Safe" versus "Dangerous" Policy Processes in Urban Public Schooling: The Case of Native American Education in ArizonaCynthia Benally Policy Practices and State Effects: A Comparative Analysis of Social Inequality, Language Diversity, and Education Policy in South Africa and the United StatesJames Collins Language Sequestration and Public Education: A View from the New Language Policy StudiesTeresa L. McCartyAbout the ContributorsIndex