| Description |
vii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction, Rethinking multicultural education / Wayne Au -- Taking multicultural, 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 G. Hilliard III -- Diversity vs. white privilege : an interview with Christine Sleeter -- 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 -- Putting out the linguistic welcome mat / Linda Christensen -- My mother's Spanish / Salvador Gabaldón -- Taking a chance with words : why are the Asian American kids silent in class? / Carol A. Tateishi -- Black English/ebonics : what it be like? / Geneva Smitherman -- Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit -- Defending bilingual education / Kelley Dawson Salas -- Bilingual education works / Stephen Krashen -- Raising children's cultural voices / Berta Rosa Berriz -- And then I went to school / Joe Suina -- 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 / Sören Wuerth -- Language lessons : using student assistants to bridge culture and language / Denise Hanson-Rautiainen -- Putting a human face on the immigration debate / Stephen Picht-Trujillo and Paola Suchsland -- Puerto Rican Vejigante : teaching art in its social and cultural context / Patty Bode -- Decolonizing 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 / Nathaniel W. Smith -- Presidents and slaves : helping students find the truth / Bob Peterson -- From snarling dogs to Bloody Sunday / Kate Lyman -- On the road to cultural bias : a critique of the "Oregon Trail" CD-ROM / Bill Bigelow -- For my people : using Margaret Walker's poem to help students 'talk-back' to stereotypes and to affirm their self worth / LInda Christensen -- Math, SATs, and racial profiling / Eric Gutstein -- Bringing the civil rights movement into the classroom / Larry Miller -- "We need to know this!" : student power and curriculum / Jody Sokolower -- Bias and CD-ROM encyclopedias / Bob Peterson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Multicultural education -- United States.
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Discrimination in education -- United States.
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Minorities -- Education -- United States.
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Social justice -- United States.
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| Author |
Au, Wayne, 1972-
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| LC no. |
2009001983 |
| ISBN |
0942961420 (paperback) |
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9780942961423 (paperback) |
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