Full Description
This volume collects Christine Sleeter's core work focusing on critical multicultural education, situating culture and identity within an analysis of power and racism. Multicultural education arose in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and, in its inception, shared with that movement a focus on eradicating both interpersonal and systemic racism. The problem this book takes up is that, over time, many people have come to understand and enact multicultural education in ways that evade grappling directly with racism. This dilution has happened for several reasons, including White teachers' rearticulations of multicultural education as "getting along" or learning to be colorblind and neoliberal reforms that have reduced it to a celebration of cultural diversity while maintaining silence about racism. This volume includes ten of Sleeter's articles that explicitly locate multicultural education within critical understandings of race, racism, and colonialism, offering both theoretical and practical discussions of what that means.
Book Features:
Brings together, in one volume, the full arc of work by a leading scholar in multicultural education.
Offers a unique focus on why multicultural education needs to be critical and what it means to be critical.
Directly connects theory with practice by offering vignettes of practice following theoretical or conceptual discussions.
Examines how the power of Whiteness and racial capitalism has forestalled progressive education and social change.
Spans multicultural education from its inception in the 1970s through the current attacks on Critical Race Theory, showing how it has been targeted, ignored, or misused.
Contents
Contents
Series Foreword James A. Banks ix
Introduction 1
Pivot Points in My Biographical Journey 1
Why Critical? 5
Part I: Defining Critical Multicultural Education
1. Critical Multiculturalism: An Introduction 13
With Stephen May
The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism 15
Critical Responses to Multiculturalism 19
Critical Multiculturalism 22
2. Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, and Antiracist Education: Implications for Multicultural Education 25
With Dolores Delgado Bernal
Critical Pedagogy and Multicultural Education 27
Critical Race Theory and Multicultural Education 33
AntiRacist Education 41
Discussion 46
3. Capitalism and Caste 50
Roots of Caste and Capitalism 50
Racial Capitalism 52
Marxism as a Western European Totalizing Theory 53
School Reform, Curriculum, and Public Consciousness 55
Conclusion 57
Part II: Critical Multicultural Education and School Reform
4. Challenging Racism and Colonialism Through Ethnic Studies 61
Minoritized Youth and Historical Amnesia 62
What Happened to Multicultural Education? 63
Curriculum: Still Through White Points of View 65
Ethnic Studies as a Decolonial Project 67
Ethnic Studies Praxis 70
Implications 73
5. Critical Race Theory as the New Villain 75
With Francesca A. López
The Bastardization of Critical Race Theory 75
Efforts to Make Curriculum More Inclusive 77
Reactions to Equitable Education Endeavors 79
What the Critics Are Saying 81
How We Respond to the Critics 83
CRT as the Villain 85
Conclusion 89
6. Diversity, Social Justice, and Resistance to Disempowerment 90
Diversity, Social Justice, and School Reform Under Neoliberalism 91
Curriculum That Disempowers 93
Curriculum That Empowers 95
Confronting the Education Reform Paradigm 97
7. Equity and Race-Visible Urban School Reform 98
The Problem With Color-Blind Solutions to Urban School Challenges 99
Race-Visible Pedagogy in the Classroom 101
Race-Visible Teachers 105
Race and Class Visible Equity in Access 107
Conclusion 109
8. Teaching for Social Justice in Multicultural Classrooms 111
Four Hallmarks of Teaching for Social Justice in Multicultural Classrooms 111
Framework for Designing Classroom Teaching 114
Conclusion 120
Part III: Personalizing Critical Multicultural Education
9. Situating Oneself in a Critical Multicultural History 123
Family History as an Entrée into History 124
Benefiting From Colonization 125
Implications 127
10. Multicultural Curriculum and Critical Family History 129
Approaches to Family History Research 129
Theoretical Lenses for Critical Family History 130
Tools for Researching Critical Family History 133
Teaching Multicultural Curriculum With Critical Family History 136
Conclusion 139
References 141
Index 167
About the Author 178
