Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Race matters in moral formation / Vanessa Siddle Walker and John R. Snarey
  • Pt. 1. African American patterns of moral formation across the life span. Caring and colortalk : childhood innocence in white and black / Audrey Thompson
  • The play of voices : black adolescents constituting the self and morality / Garrett Albert Duncan
  • In a different room : toward an African American woman's ethic of care and justice / Andrea D. Green
  • pt. 2. African American contributions to promoting moral formation within schools. Caring in the past : the case of a Southern segregated African American school / Vanessa Siddle Walker and Renarta H. Tompkins
  • Justice and care in postdesegregation urban schools : rethinking the role of teacher education programs / Edward P. St. John and Joseph P. Cadray
  • Crime and punishment : moral dilemmas in the inner-city classroom / Jennifer E. Obidah ... [et al]
  • Conclusion : Primary values and developing virtues of African American ethics / John R. Snarey and Vanessa Siddle Walker
  • Epilogue / by Charles D. Blakeney and Ronnie Frankel Blakeney
  • Appendix A : Guide to suggested chapter-correlated films
  • Appendix B : Overview of African American primary values across the chapters.