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Deconstructing Race

Multicultural Education Beyond the Color-Bind

Jabari Mahiri

Publication Date: July 28, 2017

Pages: 240

Series: Multicultural Education Series

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Description+

How do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education? Since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it?

In this important book Mahiri 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.

Author+

Jabari Mahiri is a professor of education and the William and Mary Jane Brinton Family Chair in Urban Teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his work with the Multicultural Urban Secondary English Program and the Bay Area Writing Project, he is on the board of the National Writing Project and also a board member of the American Educational Research Association, 2014 through 2017.

Reviews+

"As a nation, we seem unable to reconcile our stated principles of equality, freedom, and liberty for all against realities of white supremacist ideologies and principles that continue to subjugate and relegate people of color to the margins. But what if we were to get beyond the categories that constrain, confine, and entrench white supremacy? Jabari Mahiri opens the door for just such considerations."

—Teachers College Record

"Indeed, this specific book is timely given the current social and political climate

of the USA and internationally, and offers fodder for critical discussions about the

concepts of race, ethnicity, and culture as they relate to diverse individuals’ identities,as well as provides directions for future research."

—Human Development

"For educators in the fields of theology, religious studies, or multicultural ministry, the main appeal of this contribution may reside precisely in the richness of its ethnographical survey and, more specifically, in the testimonies of subjects classified within a certain race."

—Reflective Teaching

“Jabari Mahiri’s superb Deconstructing Race isthe best modern book on multiculturalism in education. More than that, it can be the beginning of a vital transformation of the field and of our views about diversity.”
—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University

"Altering the immutable, degenerative concepts of race that perpetuate impenetrable boundaries among "racialized" groups and myths of underachievement about people of color requires a seismic catalyst grounded in irrefutable research and inspirational evidence. Deconstructing Race is that seismic catalyst, providing the potential alchemy for an American narrative of racial promise yet unrealized."
—Yvette Jackson, chief executive officer of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

"Brilliant and thought-provoking, Deconstructing Race makes a compelling case for addressing societal inequalities by changing how we think about race. This groundbreaking book is a must-read for scholars of race and education, and for those seeking to better support the learning and development of youth."
—Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Vice Chancellor of Equity & Inclusion, UC Berkeley

Awards+

2018 AESA Critic’s Choice Award

2018 “Must Read” by the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Pittsburgh

2018 Prose Award in Education Theory, Honorable Mention

The Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book list, August 11, 2017

Contents+

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by James A. Banks

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Writing Wrongs
   Learning from the Lives of Others
   Key Concepts
   Chapter Overviews

Chapter 2. Deconstructing Race
   Multicultural Education
   Learning from Literature
   Prospects and Imperatives

Chapter 3. The Color-Bind
   Prisons of Racial Identity
   Prisms of Racial Identity
   325 Million Stories

Chapter 4. Pretending to Be White
   Hyperdiversity
   Stereotyping
   Identity Constructions
   Lifting the White Veil

Chapter 5. Passing for Black
   Blacklash
   Illegible Skin
   Man Up
   A Good Black Man
   Cyber-Lives
   Hip-Hop Life
   Clap Back!

Chapter 6. No Body's Yellow
   Sassy
   Hapa
   Hyphen-Nation
   Pigmentocracy
   Media Portrayals
   Mediums of Hip-Hop
   Enter the Dragon

Chapter 7. The Brown Box
   Blacxican
   Colombian
   Cholo
   Chicano
   Digital Acts
   Hip-Hop Action
   Breaking the Piñata

Chapter 8. Red Rum
   Citizen Potawatomi
   Urban Indians
   Mexica
   Res-Girl
   Virtual Presence
   Presence of Hip-Hop
   Listening to Spirits

Chapter 9. Micro-Cultures
   Identity Contingencies
   Digital Culture
   Hip-Hop Culture
   Interstitial Space

Chapter 10. Challenges of Multicultural Education
   Personal Perspectives Project
   From Beirut to Oakland
   Integrating Restorative Discipline Principles
   Multicultural Education 2.0
   A-mericans

Appendix A: Personal Perspectives Project
   Shivani Savdharia

Appendix B: From Beirut to Oakland: Long-Distance Shared Inquiry on Immigrants and Refugees
   Yael Friedman

Appendix C: Integrating Restorative Discipline Principles into Classroom Content
   Eva Marie Oliver

Appendix D: Personal Profile
   Kylie Garcia

References

Index

About the Author

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Becoming an Antiracist School Leader
Becoming an Antiracist School Leader
Critical Race Theory and Its Critics
Critical Race Theory and Its Critics
Education for Liberal Democracy
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Anti-Blackness at School
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