Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our SchoolsIn Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it. Pollock encountered these debates while working at the U. S.