Full Description
Many of the nation's most eminent education scholars and researchers describe constructive and effective ways to respond to and resist the attacks on diversity and multicultural education and to support democracy.
In this timely volume, James A. Banks and a stellar group of contributors push back on the national and cogent attacks on diversity and multicultural education, both of which have accelerated after the 2024 presidential election. Each chapter author (1) describes the difficulties for diversity, multicultural education, and democracy during the next decade and (2) offers interventions and actions that can be taken by educators and policymakers to lessen and reduce these challenges.
Standing Strong in Undemocratic Times describes ways in which democracy is fragile and endangered in the United States and how teaching about diversity in schools, colleges, and universities can help to promote democracy in the nation.
Book Features:
Describes the origins and nature of the attacks on DEI and of teaching about race in America's schools, colleges, and universities.
Provides information, research, and strategies that can give educators hope and ways to envision the future of diversity and multicultural education programs.
Explores how opponents of diversity and multicultural education have perpetuated misinformation, such as the claim that critical race theory is being taught in K-12 schools.
Includes contributions by three cohorts of multicultural education scholars: the founders, the second generation, and the most recent researchers in the field.
Examines how fascism and authoritarianism are growing in the United States and how education in schools, colleges, and universities can counter these forces.
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Preface James A. Banks
Introduction James A. Banks
PART I: RACISM, FASCISM, AND THE QUEST FOR EQUITY AND DEMOCRACY
Surviving a Second Nadir: Resisting the Rightist Destruction of Democracy, Gloria Ladson-Billings
DEI, Democracy, and the Authoritarian Threat: Why Higher Education Must Resist, Royel M. Johnson
White Racial Shame and the Permanence of Racism: A Critical Hope Response, Robin DiAngelo
Rise of Fascism in the United States: A Critical Multicultural Anti-Fascist Response, Michael Vavrus
PART II: REVITALIZING DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
Whites in Multicultural Education: Retrospective and Reflection, Gary Howard
Resisting Resistance to Diversity, Geneva Gay
Possibilities and Obligations of Critical Scholars When Knowledge Production Is Under Siege, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis
(Re-)Envisioning the Transformative Power of Multicultural Education, Gilberto Q. Conchas and Victor DeAlba
In the Wake of Anti-Woke: Education, Racism Without Races, and Breaking With Symmetricism, Zeus Leonardo
PART III: CURRICULUM AND TEACHING
Confronting Educational Inequity in the United States: Daring to Hope, Sonia Nieto
Curriculum for a Diverse Democracy, Christine E. Sleeter
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Immigrant-Origin Students, Carola Suárez-Orozco
PART IV: REENVISIONING THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY, DIVERSITY, AND CITIZENSHIP
DEI Disaster Recovery in America's K-12 Schools and Higher Education Institutions, Shaun Harper
Redefining Membership: Executive Actions and the Boundaries of Citizenship, Angela M. Banks
Teaching Towards Expansive Solidarities in Dangerous Times, Wayne Au
Afterword: Diversity as a Vehicle for Promoting Democracy, Cherry A. McGee Banks
