This award winning interdisciplinary guide for teachers, administrators, students, and parents offers lessons and readings that show how to:
~ Analyze the roots of racism
~ Investigate the impact of racism on all our lives, our families, and our communities
~ Examine the relationship between racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism, and heterosexism
~ Learn to work to dismantle racism in our schools, communities, and the wider… More >>
As someone in the field of anti-racist public education, I found this book very useful and thought-provoking. There are background and theory articles, lesson plans, handouts, and a complete range of resources. And all these items are in bite-size articles and excerpts that make them very practical and useful for staff and students. I was thrilled to find this book and even more thrilled to read through it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Don’t let the title of this book veer you away from it – as a registered Republican, I at first thought that this would be a diatribe of Liberal brain washing
quite the contrary – the book is filled with lesson ideas and suggestions, towards teaching, on how we can better use ethnicity and culture as a strength within the ways we teach, rather than alienating these topics from ourselves and the teaching
The book takes race itself, and shows how we can make a curriculum out of it, that is free of bias, non-alienating to anyone, and most of all, creates fun learning environments
highly recommended, especially for teachers!
HAPPY READING!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Does failure to use what this book advocates make one a proponent and practicioner of racist education? Does an exploration, for example, of the links between, say, Alexander Hamilton’s plan for absorbing state debt and encouraging manufacturing and the fact that the US was surrounded by the British in Canada, the West and at Sea…does teaching this make one a racist? A proponent of white, male hegemony?
The problem with this book and the whole gamut of “multicultural” (it should be called what it is: leftist and politicized and dishonest) pedagogy is its presumption that curriculum in the United States is racist and that it must be reformed if racism is to end. That is bull. Multiculturalists define something largely apolitical as a political extreme and thus give themselves permission to be the extremists that they are.
Rating: 1 / 5