"Since the 1980’s, Rethinking Schools magazine has been renowned for its commitment to racial equality in education. Now, Rethinking Schools has collected the best articles that deal with race and culture in the classroom in Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice. Moving beyond a simplistic focus on heroes and holidays, and foods and festivals, Rethinking Multicultural Education demonstrates a powerful vision of anti-racist, social education. Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, Rethinking Multicultural Education reclaims multicultural education as part of a larger struggle for justice and against racism, colonization, and cultural oppression – in schools and society." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Introduction

Rethinking Multicultural Education / Wayne Au

Section I: ANTI-RACIST ORIENTATIONS

Taking Multiculturalism, Anti-Racist Education Seriously / An Interview with Enid Lee

Origins of Multiculturalism / Christine Sleeter and Peter McLaren

What Do We Need to Know Now? / Asa Hilliard

Diversity vs. White Privilege / An Interview with Christine Sleeter

The Forgotten History of Eugenics / Alan Stoskopf

Standards and Tests Attack Multiculturalism / Bill Bigelow

Race and the Achievement Gap / Harold Berlak

Once Upon a Genocide: Columbus in children’s Literature / Bill Bigelow

Section II: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND POWER

Putting Out the Linguistic Welcome Mat / Linda Christensen

My Mother’s Spanish / Salvador Gabaldon

Taking a Chance with Words: Why are Asian American Kids Silent in Class? / Carol Tateishi

Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction / Lisa Delpit

Bilingual Education Works / Stephen Krashen

Raising Children’s Cultural Voice / Berta Rosa Berriz

And Then I Went to School / Joe Suina

Section II: TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES, MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM

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

You’re Asian. How Could You Fail Math?: Unmasking the Myth of the Model Minority / Benji Chang and Wayne Au

Edwina Left Behind / Soren Wuerth

Language Lessons: Using Student Assistants to Bridge Culture and Language / Denise Hanson-Rautiainen

Putting a Human Face on the Immigration Debate / Steven Picht-Trujillo and Paola Suchsland

The Puerto Rican Vejjigante: Teaching Art in its Social and Cultural Context / Patty Bode

Section IV: CONFRONTING RACE IN THE CLASSROOM

Decolonizing in the Classroom: Lessons in Multicultural Education / Wayne Au

Brown Kids Can’t Be in Our Club / Rita Tenorio

What Color is Beautiful / Alejandro Segura-Mora

Race: Some-Teachable – and Uncomfortable – Moments / Heidi Tolentino

Exploring Race Relations / Lisa Espinosa

Reconstructing Race / Nathanial Smith

Presidents and Slaves: Helping Students Find the Truth / Bob Peterson

From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday / Kate Lyman