Joe Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg
(CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, New times, New Curriculum)

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About the book

This book acknowledges the reality that in the late 1990s we live in a new racial context. The reassertion of white supremacy has created a social and educational world where many whites are angry, feel racially victimized, and stand ready to protect their privilege. Such conditions breed fear, hatred, and further violence. Any multicultural education that fails to recognize these conditions will follow the path of irrelevancy - a path too often taken by previous educational reforms. While concepts of cultural difference and diversity are certainly addressed in Changing Multiculturalism, one of its key features involves the analysis of positionality. How has one's race, ethnic, class, and/or gender consciousness been produced? What is the impact of this consciousness production on one's identity? In these ways, the book attempts to move beyond traditional texts in multicultural education. Both critical and practical, this book promises to engage the reader in a critically grounded multiculturalism.

About the authors

Joe L. Kincheloe teaches Cultural Studies and Pedagogy at Penn State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Paths to Empowerment, Toil and Trouble: Good Work, Smart Workers and the Integration of Academic and Vocational Education, and (with Shirley Steinberg) Thirteen Questions: Reframing Education's Conversation. A well known lecturer and writer, Kincheloe travels frequently with Shirley Steinberg presenting workshops and keynote addresses on popular culture, critical pedagogy and issues of race, class and gender. Kincheloe and Steinberg live in State College, Pennsylvania with their children, Ian and Christine, Meghann, Chaim and Bronwyn. Shirley R. Steinberg teaches at Adelphi University. She is an educational consultant and drama director. Her latest book is Ain't We Misbehavin'? A Pedagogy of Misbehaviour (in press), and she is the co author of The Stigma of Genius: Einstein and Beyond Modern Education. Along with Kincheloe and Aaron Gresson, she is also the editor of Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined. Steinberg and Kincheloe edit the journal Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education and several book series. Her current research involves issues of diversity, popular culture and curriculum. The latest book that Kincheloe and Steinberg have edited is Westview Press's Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood.

Table of contents

Preface Peter McLaren What is multiculturalism? Critical multiculturalism rethinking educational purpose Critical multiculturalism power and democracy Critical multiculturalism hegemonym representation, and the struggle for justice The importance of class in multiculturalism The importance of gender in multiculturalism Multiculturalism and the importance of race So purely white... whiteness in critical multiculturalism The curriculum of critical multiculturalism References Index.