What We Still Don't Know about Teaching Race : How to Talk about it in the Classroom /
edited by Sherick A. Hughes.
- Lewiston, NY : E. Mellen Press, 2005.
- xxv, 444 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-444).
"The sections of this book and chapters therein are intended to offer an additional lens for an anti-oppressive pedagogy of race. It is organized to present this lens with clarity through (a) a stepwise approach to educating our students on the topic of race, (b) enhancing our potential and our students’ possibilities for transcending ‘race’s’ barriers, and (c) engaging in the challenging role of writing (‘I’ as scholar) and against ourselves (‘I’ as scholar with flaws in teaching about race). It taps the expertise of thoughtful, critical, and reflexive scholars from Education and several related disciplines to address (a) how ‘race’ is socially constructed in teaching and learning settings, rendering it either sustainable and substitutable, or deconstructed and re-appropriated; and (b) strategies for minimizing any detrimental influences of race-related actions or inaction on the quality of teaching and learning … living. This book intends to critique traditional race-related praxis and to offer competing ideas for praxis that challenge our taken-for-granted knowledge about race. Thick, rich narratives, strong syntheses, and analyses stemming from multiple methods within the book hold potential to broaden possibilities of educators teaching about race; heighten students’ understanding of social contexts of teaching/schooling; and deepen empathy of anyone else on the fringes of engaging a commitment to (a) teach diverse others, (b) re-teach diverse others about the chaos surrounding race, and (c) teach diverse others to be self-critical of othering by re-appropriating race as a dangerous concept driven largely by social history of ideology; biological determinism; political imposition and exclusion; performance expectations; and schooling. Similar to Dr. Fred Riggs of the University of Hawaii, the term ‘race’ is written in quotation marks in each section heading to remind us to be personally suspect of the term, while also remembering that it is part of an international critical dialogue." (Publisher's Website) TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword The Dialectics of Roosting Chickens: "Race" in U.S. Education / Mary Stone Hanley Preface Pushing and Pulling: What I Still Don't Know About Teaching "Race" / Sherrick A. Hughes Acknowledgements SECTION ONE - CRITICAL PEDAGOGY OF "RACE": FROM BLACK PERSPECTIVES Chapter One - E"racing" Myths About Race and Mathematics Education through a Critical Race Theory Analysis / Chapter Two - At the Crossroads: A Community Walk with a Critical Race Feminist in Teacher Education / Chapter Three - Creating Productive Space: Approaching Diversity and Social Justice from a Privilege Perspective in Teacher Education / Chapter Four - Pedagogy Born of Struggle: From the Notebook of a Black Professor / Robert Berry Theodorea Berry Darrell Cleveland Denise Taliaferro Baszile CRITICAL PEDAGOGY OF "RACE": FROM WHITE PERSPECTIVES Chapter Five - Leveraging Whiteness: Toward a Pedagogy for Whites in Denial of Their Privilege / Chapter Six - Sitting With Ourselves: How to Work Against White Guilt in Anti-racist Teacher Education / Chapter Seven - Preaching Life into Culture: Church Service and the Development of Culturally Relevant Pedagogies / Allison Daniel Anders, W. Ross Bryan, and George W. Noblit Benjamin Blaisdell Barbara Seidl, Dena Deglau et al. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY OF "RACE": ASSESSING HOW WELL WE TEACH "THE SNEECHES" Chapter Eight - How Do We Know Our Students are Learning to Defy Race Anyhow?: Using Multiple Evaluative Tools for Assessing the Impact of Our Teaching / Chapter Nine - Challenging Racial Attitudes through Emotion and Content: Assessing the Teaching of Preservice Teachers About Race through a Heavy Civil Rights and Key Figures Approach / Chapter Ten - Multicultural Education as a Vehicle for Teaching about Race and Other Issues of Social Justice in Teacher Education: Issues, Observations, and Possibilities / Anita McDaniel and Deborah Brunson Martha Kransdorf, Lynne Hamer, and Mary Ellen Edwards Renée Martin CRITICAL PEDAGOGY OF "RACE": FROM ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES Chapter Eleven - Teaching About Race and Racism: Past Experiences and the Role of One White Jewish Educator / Chapter Twelve - "Why Can't We Have a White Cultural Center?": Exploring Equal Educational Opportunity and Power Within Multicultural Education / Chapter Thirteen - Freedom of Choice is Neither Free Nor Much of a Choice: Enlisting Oppressed Family Pedagogy into the Critical Praxis Community / Charles L. Richman Beth Hatt-Echeverria and Lan Hue Quach Sherrick A. Hughes Glossary of Terms Bibliography