In High Schools, Race, and America s Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism.
Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives.
Blum, an acclaimed moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects with candor, insight, and humor on the challenges and surprises encountered in teaching the unexpected turns...
In High Schools, Race, and America s Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism.
This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of multicultural education. It offers the reader a great opportunity to achieve a real grasp of the subject, facilitating understanding and articulation of key debates, and making important topics, concepts and theories accessible to a broad audience. The Reader is divided into four sections, covering the ideas that are at the core of contemporary multicultural education; theories, identities, practices and methods. The first section covers...
This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of multicu...
Although he spent his career as a lawyer and law school professor, Derrick Bell had a profound impact on the field of education in the area of educational equity. Among many accomplishments, Bell was the first African American to earn tenure at the Harvard Law School; he also established a new course in civil rights law and produced what has become a famous casebook: Race, Racism, and American Law. The man who could rightly be called, The Father of Critical Race Theory, Bell was an innovator who did things with the law that others had not thought possible. This volume highlights...
Although he spent his career as a lawyer and law school professor, Derrick Bell had a profound impact on the field of education in the area of educ...