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    Critical Multicultural Education
    Theory and Practice

    Christine E. Sleeter (Author)

    9780807786284

    Paperback / softback, published 26 July 2024

    192 pages
    22.9 x 15.6 x 1 cm, 0.29 kg

    This volume collects Christine Sleeter's core work focusing on critical multicultural education, situating culture and identity within an analysis of power and racism. Multicultural education arose in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and, in its inception, shared with that movement a focus on eradicating both interpersonal and systemic racism. The problem this book takes up is that, over time, many people have come to understand and enact multicultural education in ways that evade grappling directly with racism. This dilution has happened for several reasons, including White teachers' rearticulations of multicultural education as "getting along" or learning to be colorblind and neoliberal reforms that have reduced it to a celebration of cultural diversity while maintaining silence about racism. This volume includes ten of Sleeter's articles that explicitly locate multicultural education within critical understandings of race, racism, and colonialism, offering both theoretical and practical discussions of what that means.

    Book Features:

    • Brings together, in one volume, the full arc of work by a leading scholar in multicultural education.
    • Offers a unique focus on why multicultural education needs to be critical and what it means to be critical.
    • Directly connects theory with practice by offering vignettes of practice following theoretical or conceptual discussions.
    • Examines how the power of Whiteness and racial capitalism has forestalled progressive education and social change.
    • Spans multicultural education from its inception in the 1970s through the current attacks on Critical Race Theory, showing how it has been targeted, ignored, or misused.

    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
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