Rethinking multicultural education
Subtitle: teaching for racial and cultural justice
By: edited by Wayne Au
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Rethinking Schools, Limited
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780942961539
Subjects: Multicultural education; Education; Social justice; Discrimination in education; Minorities
Description: This second edition is a collection of articles dealing with race and culture in the classroom that have appeared in Rethinking Schools magazine.
Notes: Contains primary source material.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anti-racist orientations: Taking multicultural, anti-racist education seriously : an interview with Enid Lee / Barbara Miner ; "Multiplication is for White people" : an interview with Lisa Delpit / by Jody Sokolower ; What do we need to know now? / Asa G. Hilliard III ; Diversity vs. White privilege : an interview with Christine Sleeter / Barbara Miner and Bob Peterson ; You're Asian. How could you fail math? : unmasking the myth of the model minority / Benji Chang and Wayne Au ; Schools and the new Jim Crow : an interview with Michelle Alexander / Jody Sokolower ; Once upon a genocide : Columbus in children's literature / Bill Bigelow ; What do you mean when you say urban? : speaking honestly about race and students / Dyan Watson; title: The fight for multicultural education: Decolonizing the classroom : lessons in multicultural education / Wayne Au ; Why the best kids' books are written in blood / Sherman Alexie ; Those awful Texas social studies standards : and what about yours? / Bill Bigelow ; 'Greco-Roman knowledge only' in Arizona schools : indigenous wisdom outlawed once again / Roberto Cintli Rodreguez ; Precious knowledge : teaching solidarity with Tucson / Devin Carberry ; Your struggle is my struggle / Marcela Itzel Ortega ; From Johannesburg to Tucson / Bill Bigelow ; Saving Mango Street / Katie van Winkle ; Standards and tests attack multiculturalism / Bill Bigelow; title: Language, culture, and power: Putting out the linguistic welcome mat / Linda Christensen ; My mother's Spanish / Salvador Gabaldón ; Taking a chance with words : why are the Asian American kids silent in class? / Carol A. Tateishi ; Black English/ebonics : what it be like? / Geneva Smitherman ; Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit ; Keepers of the second throat / Patricia Smith ; Defending bilingual education / Kelley Dawson Salas ; Bilingual education works / Stephen Krashen ; Raising children's cultural voices / Berta Rosa Berriz ; And then I went to school / Joe Suina; title: Transnational identities, multicultural classrooms: What happened to the golden door? : how my students taught me about immigration / Linda Christensen ; Bringing globalization home / Jody Sokolower ; Arranged marriages, rearranged ideas / Stan Karp ; Welcoming Kalenna : an early childhood teacher strives to make all her students feel at home / Laura Linda Negri-Pool ; Edwina left behind / Sören Wuerth; title: Who can stay here? : confronting issues of documentation and citizenship in children's literature / Grace Cornell Gonzales ; Aquí y Allá : exploring our lives through poetry, here and there / Elizabeth Schlessman ; Putting a human face on the immigration debate / Steven Picht-Trujillo and Paola Suchsland; title: Confronting race in the classroom: Brown kids can't be in our club / Rita Tenoria ; What color is beautiful? / Alejandro Segura-Mora; title: Race : some teachable, and uncomfortable, moments / Heidi Tolentino ; Exploring race relations / Lisa Espinosa ; Reconstructing race / Nathaniel W. Smith ; Presidents and slaves : helping students find the truth / Bob Peterson ; From snarling dogs to Bloody Sunday / Kate Lyman ; 'If there is no struggle' : teaching a people's history of the abolition movement / Bill Bigelow ; The history all around us : Roosevelt High School and the 1968 Eastside blowouts / Brian C. Gibbs ; For my people : using Margaret Walker's poem to help students 'talk-back' to stereotypes and to affirm their self-worth / Linda Christensen ; The other internment : teaching the hidden story of Japanese Latin Americans during WWII / Moé Yonamine ; Bringing the Civil Rights Movement into the classroom / Larry Miller ; 'We need to know this!' : student power and curriculum / Jody Sokolower ; Burned out of homes and history : unearthing the silenced voices of the Tulsa Race Riot / Linda Christensen.