Critical Race Theory and education
Subtitle: a Marxist response
By: Mike Cole.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Marxism and education; Marxism and education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230613355; 9780230608450
Subjects: Racism in education -- United States; Racism in education -- Great Britain; Discrimination in education -- United States; Discrimination in education -- Great Britain; Critical pedagogy -- United States; Critical pedagogy -- Great Britain
Description: Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the realm of Education has a long history in the US, and is now a bourgeoning field of enquiry in the UK. Critical Race Theory and Education is the first book-length response to CRT from a Marxist perspective. It looks at CRT's origins in Critical Legal Studies, critiques the work of major US and UK Critical Race Theorists and also looks at some of CRT's strengths. CRT and Marxism are contextualized with respect to both neo-liberal global capitalism and imperialism and to antiracist socialist developments in South America. The book concludes with some suggestions for classroom practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Critical race theory: origins and varieties; title: White supremacy and racism; social class and racialization; title: The strengths of CRT; title: Multicultural education and antiracist education in the United States and the United Kingdom; title: CRT comes to the United Kingdom: a critical analysis of David Gillborn's Racism and education; title: Neoliberal global capitalism and imperialism in the twenty-first century; title: Marxism and twenty-first-century socialism; title: CRT and Marxism: some suggestions for classroom practice.