Zusatztext "Teachers and parents often want to act on the issue of racism! but don't know how. This one-of-a-kind volume is the blueprint; no one should teach another day without reading it." ?Tim Wise! author of White Like Me Informationen zum Autor Mica Pollock is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An anthropologist of education, she previously taught tenth grade and worked in the civil rights field. She is the author of Colormute and Because of Race . She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Klappentext In "Everyday Antiracism!" leading educators deal with the most challenging questions about race in school! offering invaluable and effective advice. Contributors including Beverly Daniel Tatum! Sonia Nieto! Pedro Noguera! and others. Leseprobe Introduction: Defining Everyday Antiracism Everyday things represent the most overlooked knowledge. Don DeLillo, 1997 To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell, 1946 For this book, I invited over sixty researchers, many of whom are former teachers, to boil down their school-based research into knowledge usable for K-12 classroom practice. I wanted each author to suggest a school-based action educators could take, every day, to help counteract racial inequality and racism in schools and society. We call these actions everyday antiracism . This book is not designed to convince you that you intentionally harm children. Instead, it is designed to get you thinking about how everyday actions can harm children unintentionally. It is not designed to get you to ask, Am I a bad person? Instead, it is designed to get you to ask, Do my everyday acts help promote a more equitable society? We collectively define racism as any act that, even unwittingly, tolerates, accepts, or reinforces racially unequal opportunities for children to learn and thrive; allows racial inequalities in opportunity as if they are normal and acceptable; or treats people of color as less worthy or less complex than white people. Many such acts taken in educational settings harm children of color, or privilege and value some children or communities over others in racial terms, without educators meaning to do this at all. That is why this book zooms in on ordinary acts taken by educators on a daily basis, and focuses proactively on suggestions for everyday anti racism. We not only show what acts inside schools and classrooms perpetuate racial inequalities, but we suggest alternative acts that can help to dismantle such inequalities instead. Educational policies and outside realities of health care, housing, and family employment have huge effects on the opportunities the children in our schools need and receive. Stereotypes and inaccuracies about race groups circulate in society at large. But inside schools, everyday acts matter, too. In schools, people interact across racial lines, distribute opportunities moment to moment, react to outside opportunity structures, and shape how future generations think about difference and equality. Interactions in educational settings help build or dismantle racial achievement gaps. To a student, one action can change everything. Everyday acts explored in this book include how we talk with our students and discipline them; the activities we set up for them to do; the ways we frame and discuss communities in our curriculum; and the ways we assign students to groups, grade their papers, interact with their parents, and envision their futures. Few of the contributors to this book see such actions as small potatoes efforts. Rather, we propose that such antiracist work helps remake social struct...

"Teachers and parents often want to act on the issue of racism, but don’t know how. This one-of-a-kind volume is the blueprint; no one should teach another day without reading it."
—Tim Wise, author of White Like Me

Autorentext
Mica Pollock is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An anthropologist of education, she previously taught tenth grade and worked in the civil rights field. She is the author of Colormute and Because of Race. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Klappentext

In "Everyday Antiracism," leading educators deal with the most challenging questions about race in school, offering invaluable and effective advice. Contributors including Beverly Daniel Tatum, Sonia Nieto, Pedro Noguera, and others.

Zusammenfassung

Winner, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

The groundbreaking book on race in schools that has become an essential handbook for teachers working to create antiracist classrooms 
 In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and nationwide protests against police brutality, it’s never been more important for educators and parents to ensure they’re cultivating antiracist learning environments. For years, teachers who recognized the importance of cultural responsiveness in the classroom have turned to Everyday Antiracism, the essential compendium of advice from some of America’s leading educators. 
 Pathbreaking contributors—among them Beverly Daniel Tatum, Sonia Nieto, and Pedro Noguera—describe concrete ways to analyze classroom interactions that may or may not be “racial,” deal with racial inequality and “diversity,” and teach to high standards across racial lines. Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the “n-word” to valuing students’ home worlds, dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children. Questions following each essay prompt readers to examine and discuss everyday issues of race and opportunity in their own classrooms and schools. 
 Everyday Antiracism is an essential tool for all of the educators and parents who are determined to create not only more just classrooms, but also a more just world. 
 Contributors include: 


• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

• Prudence Carter

• Thea Abu El-Haj

• Ron Ferguson

• Patricia Gándara

• Ian Haney López

• Vivian Louie

• Maria Ong

• Paul Ongtooguk

• Christine Sleeter


• Angela Valenzuela


  Leseprobe
  **Introduction:

  Defining Everyday Antiracism**

  Everyday things represent the most overlooked knowledge.
  Don DeLillo, 1997

  To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
  George Orwell, 1946

  For this book, I invited over sixty researchers, many of whom are former
  teachers, to boil down their school-based research into knowledge usable for
  K-12 classroom practice. I wanted each author to suggest a school-based action
  educators could take, every day, to help counteract racial inequality and
  racism in schools and society. We call these actions everyday antiracism.

  This book is not designed to convince you that you intentionally harm children.
  Instead, it is designed to get you thinking about how everyday actions
  can harm children unintentionally. It is not designed to get you to ask, Am I a
  bad person? Instead, it is designed to get you to ask, Do my everyday acts
  help promote a more equitable society?

  We collectively define racism as any act that, even unwittingly, tolerates,
  accepts, or reinforces racially unequal opportunities for children to learn and
  thrive; allows racial inequalities in opportunity as if they are normal and acceptable;
  or treats people of color as less worthy or less complex than white
  people. Many such acts taken in educational settings harm children of color,
  or privilege and value some children or communities over others in racial
  terms, without educators meaning to do this at all. That is why this book
  zooms in on ordinary acts taken by educators on a daily basis, an…