Critical Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice (Paperback)

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