Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 236
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4422-0455-3 • Hardback • July 2011 • $107.00 • (£82.00)
978-1-4422-0457-7 • eBook • August 2011 • $101.50 • (£78.00)
Pierre W. Orelus is assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at New Mexico State University.
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Interviewees
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Mapping and Engaging the Debate on Race, Racism, and Other "isms": From Slavery, the Civil Rights Era to Barack Obama's Presidency and Beyond
Introduction to Part One
Chapter 1: Unveiling Majoritarian Myths and Tales About Race and Racism
Chapter 2: The Fight Against Racism and Classism: A Conversation with David Gillborn
Chapter 3: Unmasking White Supremacy and Racism: A Conversation with Zeus Leonardo
Part Two: Against the Matrix of Oppressions: Toward a More Human World
Introduction to Part Two
Chapter 4: Unpacking Racial and Socio-economic Marginalizations: A Conversation With Howard Winant
Chapter 5: Re-examining Social Inequality in School and Beyond: A Conversation with Christine E. Sleeter
Chapter 6: Unveiling Discriminations in School and Society at Large: A Conversation with Sonia Nieto.
Chapter 7: Multiculturalism Matters More Than Ever: A Conversation With Carl A. Grant
Part Three: Redefining Democracy, Schooling, and Social Justice in The Supreme Stage of Western Neoliberalism and U.S. Imperialism
Introduction to Part Three
Chapter 8: Critical Pedagogy in Stark Opposition to Western Neo-liberalism and Corporatization of Schools: A Dialogue with Peter McLaren
Chapter 9: Democracy, Schooling, and Neo-liberalism: A Dialogue With Noam Chomsky
Part Four: The Trio of Inequities: Race, Class, and Gender
Introduction to Part Four
Chapter 10: Re-Examining Class and Racial Dominations in the New Era of Western Capitalism: A Dialogue With Antonia Darder
Chapter 11: Beyond Obama's Historical Symbolism: The Heavy Weight of Being Black/Brown in a Racist Society: A Conversation with Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Chapter 12: Confront Racial and Gender Oppressions in Schools: A Conversation With Pedro Noguera
Chapter 13: I Say It How It Is: Exposing Racial Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: A Conversation with Dave Stovall
Conclusion
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Pierre Orelus has done what we have all wanted to do: sit and dialogue with an impressive array of scholars who examine injustice and intersectionality with insight and immediacy. Grab a chair and join the conversation—you won't be able to put this book down.
— Kevin Kumashiro, editor of "Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education"
With well-crafted, provocative questions, Pierre Orelus skillfully interviews thirteen leading social justice educators and cross-border scholars who speak candidly of personal histories, experiences in the classroom, and their views about the nature of democracy, the future of capitalism, as well as the ways race, class, gender, and language overlap in webs of oppression. Searing, revelatory, inspiring, pathbreaking, and hard-to-stop reading.
— Jean Stefancic, Research Professor Emerita, University of PIttsburgh School of Law
Rethinking Race, Class, Language and Gender is first and foremost a rich theoretical critique that challenges the foundations of inequality and social hierarchies within American Society. Through historical analysis, in-depth interviews, and social investigation, the author examines the connections between various forms of social injustice. The author illustrates through many examples how oppression operates in the 21st Century, and how the disadvantage fights back. Rethinking Race, Class, Language and Gender forces us to explore how the ruling class exercises its power. It presents both an uncompromising vision and a brilliant analysis how American democracy should work.
— Manning Marable, M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies, Columbia University
This book overflows with wisdom, candor, and clarity as thirteen prominent educators/scholars immerse us in their personal experiences, political analyses, and future visions. The dialogue between these scholars and Pierre Orelus gives us a chance to look beneath the pages of their scholarly work and peer for a moment into their lifeworlds. Their words illuminate the depths and contours of global White supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy. But, the larger undercurrent of the book is a discourse of radical hope, which pushes us toward the surface as we struggle to emerge and, someday, draw breath in a new, truly just world.
— Ricky Lee Allen, Associate Professor of Educational Thought & Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico
An informative conversation by well-known scholars on the long arguments about race, gender, class, and language.
— Maxine Greene, Columbia University