Having grown up with his aunt’s tales of Amelia’s humorous misadventures, Herman decided to carry on the legacy after his aunt’s death in 1988. The race-conscious model (a) focuses on how racial stratification impacts the cultivation, transmission, and activation of cultural capital on the individual and institutional levels and (b) highlights the harmful impact of the lack of racial literacy that is inherent to the white habitus. Herman Parish is the author of Amelia Bedelia children's book series, nephew of original author, Peggy Parish. In this essay, I propose a race-conscious framework to challenge the colorblind assumptions and deficit perspectives inherent to the cultural capital framework. The class-based master-narrative elevates a one-dimensional view of inequality as rooted primarily in class-based stratification and downplays the fact that the economic elites who inhabit these dominant social positions are predominantly white. However, these studies adhere to a white centered “class-based master-narrative,” to legitimize and perpetuate the assumption that racial differences are secondary manifestations of class-based structures.

Sociologists of education frequently draw on the cultural capital framework to explore the ways in which educational institutions perpetuate inequality in schools and the larger society. Come Back, Amelia Bedelia Author Peggy Parish Publisher HarperCollins Genre Juvenile Fiction Topic Humorous Stories, Business, Careers, Occupations, General About this product Product Information For use in schools and libraries only. Nahid Bhadelia is an American infectious-diseases physician, founding director of Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research (CEID), an associate director at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at Boston University, and an associate professor at the Boston University School of Medicine.

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