Title:
Deconstructing race : multicultural education beyond the color-bind / Jabari Mahiri.
Author:
Mahiri, Jabari, editor.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2017]
Call Number:
LC1099.3 .M3325 2017
Abstract:
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. -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780807757772
9780807757765
Series:
Multicultural education series
Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Physical Description:
xix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Writing wrongs. Learning from the lives of others -- Key concepts -- Deconstructing race. Multicultural education -- Learning from literature -- Prospects and imperatives -- The color-bind. Prisons of racial identity -- Prisms of racial identity -- 325 million stories -- Pretending to be white. Hyperdiversity -- Stereotyping -- Identity constructions -- Lifting the white veil -- Passing for black. Blacklash -- Illegible skin -- Man up -- A good black man -- Cyber-lives -- Hip-hop life -- Clap back! -- No body's yellow. Sassy -- Hapa -- Hyphen-nation -- Pigmentocracy -- Media portrayals -- Mediums of hip-hop -- Enter the dragon -- The brown box. Blacxican-- Colombian -- Cholo -- Chicano -- Digital acts -- Hip-hop action -- Breaking the Piñata -- Red rum. Citizen Potawatomi -- Urban Indians -- Mexica -- Res-girl -- Virtual presence -- Presence of hip-hop -- Listening to spirits -- Micro-cultures. Identity contingencies -- Digital culture -- Hip-hop culture -- Interstitial space -- Challenges of multicultural education. Personal perspectives project -- From Beirut to Oakland -- Integrating restorative discipline principles -- Multicultural education 2.0 -- A-mericans -- Appendix A: Personal perspectives project / Shivani Savdharia -- Appendix B: From Beirut to Oakland: long-distance shared inquiry on immigrants and refugees / Yael Friedman -- Appendix C: Integrating restorative discipline principles into classroom content / Eva Marie Oliver -- Appendix D: Personal profile / Kylie Garcia.
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