Rethinking Multicultural Education

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Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice

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The early praise for our latest book says it all: Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice, edited by Rethinking Schools editor Wayne Au, is "thoughtful and timely" and an "essential text."

Rethinking Multicultural Education is a collection of the best articles from Rethinking Schools on race and culture over the last 23 years, with topics ranging from how we teach Christopher Columbus to the need to recognize the value of home languages in the classroom to the myth of Model Minority.

Among the writers featured in this seminal work include contributions by the late Asa G. Hilliard III, Lisa Delpit, Geneva Smitherman, Enid Lee, Christine Sleeter, Linda Christensen, Bill Bigelow, Bob Peterson, Stan Karp, Stephen Krashen, Harold Berlak, and Carol Tateishi.

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Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, Rethinking Multicultural Education reclaims multicultural education as part of a larger struggle for justice and against racism, colonization, and cultural oppression—in schools and society.

Rethinking Multicultural Education features 40 chapters, split into four sections: Anti-Racist Orientations; Language, Culture, and Power; Transnational Identities, Multicultural Classrooms; and Confronting Racism in the Classroom. You can read the book's introduction and the table of contents at http://www.rethinkingschools.org/publication/rme/rme.shtml.

Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children writes that Rethinking Multicultural Education is "both thoughtful and timely" and "the resource teachers at every level have been looking for."

Jeff Chang, author Can't Stop Won't Stop says: Rethinking Multicultural Education powerfully reminds us that any attempt at 'multicultural education' that fails to raise critical questions among students, teachers, and administrators about racial justice is inadequate to the needs of this time."

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Literacy for Environmental Justice Celebration!

From: Milton Reynolds [mailto:Milton_Reynolds@facing.org]

Dear All,

On November 14th, Literacy for Environmental Justice will hold its first annual benefit dinner and celebration -- and we're hoping you can join in on the fun!

Among other things we'll be celebrating the recent ground breaking and strides towards completion of the EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park. The EcoCenter will be the only building of its kind in San Francisco and will feature, among other cutting edge technologies, a green living roof as well as the Eco Machine, a UV and green house based water filtration system. The building will be totally off grid and highlight a number of sustainable building practices. Perhaps most importantly, though, it'll house a number of programs we provide for LEJ Youth and the communities we serve: Bayview Hunters Point in particular, but other neighborhoods across the city as well. The building has already drawn attention from across the nation and we'd love to share it with you too.

The event will take place on November 14th at 7:00 p.m. and will be held at Mission Rock Cafe ( 817 Terry Francois Drive, San Francisco). Please contact our Deputy Director, Pamela Calvert, at (415) 282-6840.

A flier is attached; please feel free to share it with someone else you think might be moved by LEJ's work.

Thanks in advance for your support and I look forward to seeing you there!

Take care,

Milton Reynolds

Chair of the Board, LEJ