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ERIC Number: ED580789
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jul-28
Pages: 240
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: 978-0-8077-5777-2
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Deconstructing Race: Multicultural Education beyond the Color-Bind. Multicultural Education Series
Mahiri, Jabari
Teachers College Press
This book answers: (1) how do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education; and (2) since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? The author 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.
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Publication Type: Books
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Language: English
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