{"product_id":"9780807774861","title":"Deconstructing Race: Multicultural Education Beyond the Color-Bind","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education? Since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this important book Mahiri argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined and sustained by the ideological, social, political, and economic forces of white supremacy. Exploring contemporary and historical scholarship on race, the emergence of multiculturalism, and the rise of the digital age, the author investigates micro-cultural practices and provides a compelling framework for understanding the diversity of individuals and groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescriptions and analysis from ethnographic interviews reveal how people’s continually evolving, highly distinctive, micro-cultural identities and affinities provide understandings of diversity not captured within assigned racial categories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSynthesizing the scholarship and interview findings, the final chapter connects the play of micro-cultures in people’s lives to a needed shift in how multicultural education uses race to frame and comprehend diversity and identity and provides pedagogical examples of how this shift can look in teaching practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jabari Mahiri’s superb \u003cem\u003eDeconstructing Race \u003c\/em\u003eis \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethe best modern book on multiculturalism in education. More than that, it can be the beginning of a vital transformation of the field and of our views about diversity.‘\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJames Paul Gee\u003c\/strong\u003e, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDeconstructing Race\u003c\/em\u003e provides a framework for a new American narrative on race based on irrefutable research and inspirational evidence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYvette Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e, chief executive officer of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Teachers College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068397076720,"sku":"9780807774861","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807774861_p0.jpg?v=1763727198","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807774861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}