Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development
"Beyond Heroes and Holidays" renewed my hope that schools may yet find ways to address the debilitating legacy of racism. This book is a toolkit for unpacking years of personal, institutional, and historical baggage and raising hard issues in cons tructive ways. It shows how the trendy but soft and superficial multiculturalism now prevalent in schools might become more robust and powerful. It moves beyond "celebrating diversity" to understanding why some differences translate into access to privile ge and power, while others are a source of discrimination and injustice. With its many practical strategies for creating dialogue and real change in school communities, "Beyond Heroes and Holidays" left me hopeful that we might yet move to a higher ground  of mutual understanding and join in a common struggle for justice in schools and out.  --Stan Karp, H.S. teacher English/journalism; co-editor of Rethinking Schools, in Educational Leadership, May 1998Beyond Heroes and Holidays is a find. It offers insight into how the traditional American educational system perpetuates racism in all curricular areas. It provides a rich array of resources, models and strategies for promoting multicultural educa tion. And it can be used by all teachers-new as well as experienced, K-12 as well as university-level. This book is for anyone who has either wondered or been asked, "How can I incorporate multicultural education into my classroom?"  --David Stone, Assistan t Professor in Counselor Education at Ohio University, in Democracy and Education, Fall 1998