Contents
Introduction:
Rethinking Multicultural Education — 1
By Wayne Au
Section I:
Anti-Racist Orientations — 7
Taking Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education Seriously:
An interview with Enid Lee — 9
Origins of Multiculturalism —17
By Christine Sleeter and Peter McLaren
What Do We Need to Know Now? — 21
By Asa G. Hilliard III
Diversity vs. White Privilege:
An interview with Christine Sleeter — 37
The Forgotten History of Eugenics — 45
By Alan Stoskopf
Standards and Tests Attack Multiculturalism — 53
By Bill Bigelow
Race and the Achievement Gap — 63
By Harold Berlak
Once Upon a Genocide: Columbus in children's literature — 73
By Bill Bigelow
Section II:
Language, Culture, and Power — 87
Putting Out the Linguistic Welcome Mat — 89
By Linda Christensen
My Mother's Spanish — 97
By Salvador Gabaldón
Taking a Chance with Words:
Why are the Asian American kids silent in class? — 101
By Carol A. Tateishi
Black English/Ebonics: What it be like? — 111
By Geneva Smitherman
Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction — 121
Lisa Delpit
Defending Bilingual Education — 131
By Kelley Dawson Salas
Bilingual Education Works — 139
By Stephen Krashen
Raising Children's Cultural Voices — 147
By Berta Rosa Berriz
And Then I Went to School — 155
By Joe Suina
Section III :
Transnational Identities, Multicultural Classrooms — 163
What Happened to the Golden Door?:
How my students taught me about immigration — 165
By Linda Christensen
Bringing Globalization Home — 181
By Jody Sokolower
Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas — 191
By Stan Karp
Welcoming Kalenna:
An early childhood teacher
strives to make all her students feel at home — 203
By Laura Linda Negri—Pool
You're Asian. How Could You Fail Math?:
Unmasking the myth of the model minority — 207
By Benji Chang and Wayne Au
Edwina Left Behind — 217
By Sören Wuerth
Language Lessons: Using student assistants
to bridge culture and language — 221
By Denise Hanson-Rautiainen
Putting a Human Face on the Immigration Debate — 227
By Steven Picht-Trujillo and Paola Suchsland
The Puerto Rican Vejigante: Teaching art in its
social and cultural context — 237
By Patty Bode
Section IV:
Confronting Race in the Classroom — 245
Decolonizing the Classroom:
Lessons in multicultural education — 247
By Wayne Au
Brown Kids Can't Be in Our Club — 255
By Rita Tenorio
What Color Is Beautiful? — 263
By Alejandro Segura-Mora
Race: Some Teachable–and Uncomfortable–Moments — 269
By Heidi Tolentino
Exploring Race Relations — 279
By Lisa Espinosa
Reconstructing Race — 287
By Nathaniel W. Smith
Presidents and Slaves: Helping students find the truth — 297
By Bob Peterson
From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday — 307
By Kate Lyman
On the Road to Cultural Bias: A critique of the
“Oregon Trail” CD-ROM — 317
By Bill Bigelow
For My People:
Using Margaret Walker's poem to help students 'talk-back' to stereotypes and to affirm their self worth — 335
By Linda Christensen
Math, SATs, and Racial Profiling — 341
By Eric Gutstein
Bringing the Civil Rights Movement into the Classroom — 349
By Larry Miller
'We Need to Know This!': Student power and curriculum — 355
By Jody Sokolower
Bias and CD-ROM Encyclopedias — 361
By Bob Peterson
Author Biographies — 369
Index — 373