Deconstructing Race Multicultural Education Beyond the Color-Bind
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jabari Mahiri is a professor of education and the William and Mary Jane Brinton Family Chair in Urban Teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his work with the Multicultural Urban Secondary English Program and the Bay Area Writing Project, he is on the board of the National Writing Project and also a board member of the American Educational Research Association, 2014 through 2017.
<p>"As a nation, we seem unable to reconcile our stated principles of equality, freedom, and liberty for all against realities of white supremacist ideologies and principles that continue to subjugate and relegate people of color to the margins. But what if we were to get beyond the categories that constrain, confine, and entrench white supremacy? Jabari Mahiri opens the door for just such considerations."</p>
<p>—<strong>Teachers College Record</strong></p>
<p>"Indeed, this specific book is timely given the current social and political climate</p>
<p>of the USA and internationally, and offers fodder for critical discussions about the</p>
<p>concepts of race, ethnicity, and culture as they relate to diverse individuals’ identities,as well as provides directions for future research."</p>
<p>—<strong>Human Development</strong></p>
<p>"For educators in the fields of theology, religious studies, or multicultural ministry, the main appeal of this contribution may reside precisely in the richness of its ethnographical survey and, more specifically, in the testimonies of subjects classified within a certain race."</p>
<p>—<strong>Reflective Teaching</strong></p>
How do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education? Since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it?
In this important book Mahiri argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined and sustained by the ideological, social, political, and economic forces of white supremacy. Exploring contemporary and historical scholarship on race, the emergence of multiculturalism, and the rise of the digital age, the author investigates micro-cultural practices and provides a compelling framework for understanding the diversity of individuals and groups.
Descriptions and analysis from ethnographic interviews reveal how people’s continually evolving, highly distinctive, micro-cultural identities and affinities provide understandings of diversity not captured within assigned racial categories.
Synthesizing the scholarship and interview findings, the final chapter connects the play of micro-cultures in people’s lives to a needed shift in how multicultural education uses race to frame and comprehend diversity and identity and provides pedagogical examples of how this shift can look in teaching practices.
“Jabari Mahiri’s superb Deconstructing Race isthe best modern book on multiculturalism in education. More than that, it can be the beginning of a vital transformation of the field and of our views about diversity.”
—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jabari Mahiri is a professor of education and the William and Mary Jane Brinton Family Chair in Urban Teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his work with the Multicultural Urban Secondary English Program and the Bay Area Writing Project, he is on the board of the National Writing Project and also a board member of the American Educational Research Association, 2014 through 2017.