Critical Multicultural Education

Christine E. Sleeter is professor emerita in the College of Education at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her books include Critical Race Theory and Its Critics, Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools, and Un-Standardizing Curriculum.

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. Lopez 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 Entree 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

"Sleeter effortlessly weaves together analyses of personal narratives, anecdotes, history, case studies, and political events and social movements to argue for a reanimated critical multicultural education theory and practice; and in doing so, Sleeter shows just how deep the roots of the multicultural education tree lie." -Teachers College Record