In their new critical reader, editors Mary Jane Harkins and Sonya E. Singer argue that `sorting' ourselves into identity categories results in sexism, racism, heterosexism, homophobia, classism, ableism, and other `isms'. This book's 19 innovative chapters invite educators, teachers and education students to reflect on schooling practices as a contextualized social process, which requires having and retaining at the forefront of thinking, the intricate inter-weavings of the systemic and cultural impact of race, gender, class, sexuality and ability on the everyday lives of students.