Critical Pedagogy and Race

Critical Pedagogy and Race argues that a rigorous engagement with race is a priority for educators concerned with equality in schools and in society.

Comprising twelve scholarly contributions, the book brings together a melange of theories on race, including Afro–centric, Latino–based and postcolonial perspectives, as well as historical studies, and social justice ideas on activism in education. The contributors endorse racial analysis, problematize it, expand it, and in the end enrich it. In doing so, they question popular concepts such as white privilege, color–blind perspectives, and race–neutral pedagogies.

The publication of this volume marks a shift by strengthening race–based analysis in critical pedagogy, a field which has traditionally focused on class relations.

Editorial (Michael A. Peters).

Foreword (Zeus Leonardo).

Introduction Racism and New Racism : The contours of racial dynamics in contemporary America (Eduardo Bonna–Silva).

1. The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the discourse of white privilege (Zeus Leonardo).

2. Whiteness and Critical Pedagogy (Ricky Lee Allen).

3. Maintaining Social Justice Hopes within Academic Realities: A Freirean approach to critical race/LatCrit pedagogy (Daniel G. Solorzano and Tara J. Rosso).

4. The Social Construction of Difference and the Quest for Educational Equality (James A. Banks).

5. Anti–racism: From policy to praxis (David Gillborn).

6. Critical Race Theory, Afrocentricity, and their Relationship to Critical Pedagogy (Marvin Lynn).

7. Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of difference (Valerie Scatamburlo–D Annibale and Peter McLaren).

8. Actions Following Words: Critical race theory connects to critical pedagogy (Laurence Parker and David O. Stovall).

9. Race, Class, and Gender in Education Research: Surveying the political terrain (Michele Foster).

10. An Apartheid of Knowledge in Academia: The struggle over the legitimate knowledge of faculty of color (Delores Delgado Bernal and Octavio Villalpando).

11 Postcolonial Literature and the Curricular Imagination: Wilson Harris and the pedagogical implications of the carnivalesque (Cameron McCarthy and Greg Dimitriadis).

Notes on Contributors.

Index.

Zeus Leonardo is Visiting Associate Professor at University of California, Berkley. He was previously Associate Professor in the College of Education at California State University, Long Beach and Visiting Professor and Acting Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at University of Washington, Seattle. His previous publications include Charting New Terrains of Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Education (2000) and Ideology, Discourse, and School Reform (2003).

In this text, critical race theory in education approaches its adolescence. It has moved from the dependency of infancy where it could only be made understandable in the context of legal scholarship, to the uncertain steps of childhood where it kept looking elsewhere for approval, to the exciting, brash, and even rebellious period of its teenaged years. In this text it seeks its identity, defines a new way of being, and makes adults pay attention. Gloria Ladson–Billings, Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison

A book for all concerned about education for multiracial democracy. Critical pedagogy here meets critical race theory for the first time in a substantial framing. These pioneering scholars of education and communications go where few have gone before to develop a vital pedagogy taking institutionalized racism seriously. Formulating an educational perspective foregrounding white racism and privilege, these savvy educators press for a deep consideration of major anti–racist strategies in 21st century education. Joe R. Feagin, Texas University