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The Labeling and Positioning of Refugee Students and Their Refusal to be (Mis)Positioned Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Jill Koyama, Adnan Turan
Around the world, refugees are portrayed as victims in need of humanitarian aid or alternatively, suspicious burdens on resettlement societies. These stereotypical portrayals position them as disti...
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Summer Nights of the Living Dead: The Return of Oppenheimer and Barbie Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Bernard Beck
Two movies appeared at the same time in the summer of 2023, Oppenheimer and Barbie. Although they seem to be quite different, they were joined together in the public eye, being referred to as “Barb...
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Editorial Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Kevin Roxas, Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 4, 2023)
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Amplifying Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students’ Voice, Agency and Authority through Enactments of Authentic Cariño Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Corinna D. Ott, Alison G. Dover, Joanna Peters, Fernando (Ferran) Rodríguez-Valls
U.S. educational systems routinely dismiss and discount the voices of newcomer and emergent plurilingual students, and instead privilege ideologies of whiteness, ability, and English monolingualism...
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Deconstructing the Master Narrative: Active Learning through Decolonial Pedagogy Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Erika Rendon-Ramos
For most undergraduate students, history prior to college has been dominated by learning through a settler colonialism lens. Settler colonialism embodies the typical United States, master, or tradi...
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Pivoting a Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program through a Critical Race Theory Lens Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Yvette Lapayese, Marta Sanchez
This essay adds to the continuing discourse on the effective support of bilingual teachers. It examines the programmatic shifts in a university-based bilingual teacher preparation program, set agai...
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Editorial Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Kevin Roxas, Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2023)
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Centering the Voices of Migrant Teachers: Uncovering Their Transnational Memories, Experiences, and Teaching Through Multimodal Interview Activities Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Jungmin Kwon, Yeji Kim
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2023)
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“Divisive Concepts” Legislation Reaching into Tennessee Secondary Classrooms Has “Chilling Effect” on Teachers Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 S. Luke Anderson
Recent legislation in Tennessee regarding “divisive concepts” in secondary education negatively impacts teachers. It causes them to question previously taught content for fear that parents or admin...
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Nuestra Historias: Preservice Teachers Create Texts to Tell Their Silenced Stories Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Sandra Lucia Osorio
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2023)
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Our Roots Are Showing: American Media Stars Display Their Subcultural Origins Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Bernard Beck
The neatness of our referring to societies as units of encryption ignores the many real situations when boundaries and memberships may not be clear or recognized. Members may participate in several...
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Humanizing Learning Spaces in Dehumanizing Times: The Role of Joy and Meaningful Connection Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Kira LeeKeenan
Two teacher-educators, who are also researchers and former secondary teachers, reflect on how joy and meaningful connection were central to the agentive work of youth in two classrooms. They argue ...
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Resisting the Dreamer Narrative Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 A review by Wiktoria Kozlowska
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2023)
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A review of Making Black Girls Count in Math Education: A Black Feminist Vision for Transformative Teaching Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Erin Williams
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2023)
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Editorial Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Kevin Roxas, Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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Remembering Harlem Prep and Multicultural Education in the Long Struggle for Justice Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Barry M. Goldenberg
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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Before We Let Go!: Operationalizing Culturally Informed Education Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Jemimah Young, Jamaal Young
Disparate educational outcomes persist for culturally and linguistically diverse learners despite numerous efforts to encourage pre-service and in-service teachers to adopt culturally relevant education. The operationalization of culturally relevant education, however, remains relatively unexplored as an explanation for teacher resistance. Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) and Culturally Relevant
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Flying Saucers Are Real: Nope, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and American Minorities in Alien Worlds Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Bernard Beck
Two recent movies exemplify a new marriage of alien invader science fiction and multicultural issues of marginalized and minority groups in contemporary society. These two movies are impressively successful and have received many honors. They are marked by an implicit skepticism about mainstream society’s reasonableness and its benefit to struggling people in diverse communities. Sadly, the larger
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Graphic Novels as Curricular Counter-Narratives for English Language Learners and Emergent Bilinguals Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Marium Abugasea Heidt, Martha M. French, Henry “Cody” Miller
In this article, we advocate for integrating select graphic novels into curricula for English language learners and emergent bilinguals to push against the dominant and harmful narratives that tend to be found in traditional history texts and curricula. We use Vietnamerica by Tran and Escape from Syria by Kullab et al. as examples of counter-narratives that challenge these dominant and oppressive forces
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Joy for All Students: A Review of Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Mehmet Gultekin
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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Book Review: Letting Go of Literary Whiteness Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Benjamin Lathrop
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Kevin Roxas, Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2023)
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President’s Corner: NAME’s Sankofa Bird Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 H. Prentice Baptiste, Lisa Zagumny
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2023)
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Examining Literature Through Tenets of Critical Race Theory: A Pedagogical Approach for the ELA Classroom Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Melissa J. Bedford, Shelly Shaffer
In this article, the authors present a qualitative study focused on preservice teachers employing a framework using tenets of critical race theory (CRT)—permanence of racism, experiential knowledge and counter-storytelling, interest convergence, and critique of liberalism—in literature study. Drawing on critical English education, critical race English education, and CRT, the proposed framework integrates
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One Class Is Not Enough: Learnings From a Critical Race Media Literacy Course for Elementary Teacher Education Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Sarah B. Shear, Andrea M. Hawkman
The authors explore their use of critical race media literacy in an elective elementary teacher education course. Analysis of course work and reflexive conversations (between the authors) indicate the necessity to support preservice teachers’ embodiments of critical race media literacy, racial pedagogical content knowledge, and racial pedagogical decision making to enact critical pedagogies in their
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No Dreadlocks Allowed: Race, Hairstyles, and Exclusion in Schools Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Patricia A. Banks
While the educational exclusion of students who wear hairstyles linked to people of African descent has garnered significant media attention, there has been little scholarly investigation of this phenomenon. Drawing on content analysis of dress codes in Texas public schools, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by conceptually and empirically elaborating how students who wear dreadlocks are
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Once Upon a Time in America: Till, Dreamland, “Ultra,” “The Holocaust,” and Recurrent Nightmares Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Bernard Beck
Four recent movies and broadcasts have brought our attention to historical episodes of racism, anti-semitism, authoritarianism, and murder in the first half of the Twentieth Century. These episodes had been largely forgotten as the history of social progress has been celebrated. New attention to past events as presented in the four works is associated with the loss of optimism in political and social
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“There’s So Much That Young People Need to Learn That Only the Community Can Teach Them”: A Conversation With Dr. Arnetha F. Ball Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Iesha Jackson, Arnetha F. Ball, Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Sara Shaw, Adriana Hernandez
The current moment in schooling and socio-political contexts has prompted many educators to pause and reflect on what it might take to create a “new normal” for educating young people, particularly in underserved, urban communities. This article centers an interview with Dr. Arnetha F. Ball given her expertise in the field of teacher education, specifically with students in urban schools. We draw connections
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Creating Transformative Leaders of Social Justice in Education Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Amber S. Makaiau, Patricia E. Halagao, Ger Thao
Three colleagues critically reflect on their experiences as educators, curriculum designers, leaders, and activists who set out to apply social justice education and transformative leadership scholarship to the creation of a Leaders of Social Justice in Education course. They begin with their background, the diverse change agents selected to build a movement of leaders, and the educational context
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What Teachers Should Know About Teaching Culturally Relevant Books in Grades 11–12 Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Marisol Massó
This article presents popular misconceptions on teaching culturally relevant books and provides strategies that can inform the search, selection, and teaching of books in culturally responsive ways. Informed by relevant research and insights gained from collaboratively teaching a children's literature course at college level, I discuss how the teaching strategies suggested here can be adapted to suit
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Unpacking Cross-Cultural Experiences as a Mode of Knowing Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 A review by Lili Zhou
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2023)
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Community as a Catalyst: Identity and Agency Development Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Jenna Gist, Brandon Schuler, Haley Quinlan, Kendra Nunan
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2023)
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Francesina R. Jackson
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2023)
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Explorations of Anti-Blackness and Wellness Through a Black Female Affinity Cohort Case Study Project Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Karen Dade, Sislena Ledbetter, Xyanthe Neider, Devyn Nixon
This case study explored the experiences of 10 Black female faculty/professionals enrolled in a 5-month wellness project. The women engaged in critical discussions pertaining to working in predominately White settings, where structural inequities, institutional racism, and the lack of cultural awareness threaten their physical and emotional wellbeing. The women read Black feminist authors, shared their
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Editorial Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Kevin Roxas, Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2022)
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“Don’t Be Shy to Ask for Help”: Group Work With Urban, Black, First-Generation College Students Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Krista M. Malott, Shivam Gosai, Zara Khan, Katherine Precourt, Tracy Gamerman, Genevieve Waldman
An urban, Black high school population share their experiences of a college preparatory counseling group specific to prospective first-generation college students (PFGCS). The salience of help seeking, as a major theme in this study, is highlighted and explored according to Black, first-generation college going students. Participant experiences include aspects of limited knowledge in regard to preparing
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Invitation to the Dance: Authenticity and Fusion in Tango Shalom and Other Multicultural Movies Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Bernard Beck
Movies have designated dance as a positive way for marginal and groups assigned a low status to cope with the enduring pain of inequality. A brief history of dance movies reveals the sentimental appeal of stories of coping with inequality by adopting dancer identities. The recent movie Tango Shalom offers an example of the use of dancing as a model for reconciling subcultural integrity with multicultural
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Teaching From the Guest Room, Learning at the Kitchen Table: Online Equity Courses in a Pandemic Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Alyssa Hadley Dunn
In this piece, I use a series of “found poems” created from my notes and memos taken while teaching, first curating them into thematic poems and then reflecting on what those poems say about the affordances and constraints of teaching courses—especially those focused on equity and justice—in an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic. I also describe pedagogical moves made during this transition
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Centering Teacher Narratives for Equitable Teaching of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Patricia A. Edwards, Heather L. Reichmuth, Lucía Cárdenas Curiel
This study explores the use of teacher narrative sketches in a graduate level course titled, Language Diversity and Literacy Instruction. The narrative assignment asked students to write stories of their own experiences with language diversity in literacy or other content areas. The shared teacher narratives, which drew on their teacher knowledge, allowed the teachers to reflect on their personal experiences
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Classroom Management #Karen: What Can Educators Learn From a Meme? Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Sherry L. Deckman, Lizette Aguilar
Much has been written about how race and the demographic mismatch of mostly white teachers teaching mostly Black and brown students has contributed to the over-disciplining of this same population of students. Further, research has shown that when students have teachers of the same race they are less likely to experience exclusionary discipline practices. While recent studies have considered the role
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Migration and U.S. Citizenship: A Curriculum Proposal Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-12-20 A review by Walter C. Parker
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2022)
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Radical and Liberatory Academic Writing: Speaking Truth to People and Power for Revolutionary Purposes Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Conra D. Gist
This article introduces and frames the special issue Radical and Liberatory Academic Writing: Speaking Truth to People and Power for Revolutionary Purposes. The goal of this special issue is to feature articles dedicated to examining: (a) novel efforts to demystify academic writing as a genre and spotlight the problematics and potentialities inherent when choosing to take up radical and liberatory
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“You Can Be Creative Once You Are Tenured”: Counterstories of Academic Writing From Mid-Career Women Faculty of Color Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Rebecca Covarrubias, Xiaoxia Newton, Tehia Starker Glass
Academic writing is a critical activity through which scholars establish their stature in the field with ensuing academic successes. These “successes” rely on conventions that determine what questions are important to ask, what is the most rigorous methodology to employ, what constitutes “good” quality writing, and who is our most important audience. We offer counterstories of how we, three mid-career
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Advancing Activism Through Academic Scholarship: What’s in a Name (Revisited) Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Gerardo M. González, Francisco Rios
This article discusses an effort in the early 1990s to question the naming of campus edifices to recognize California state Senator William Craven (1973–1998), who made public statements considered anti-Latino while in office. During that period, there were very few movements to rename campus landmarks. This article analyzes one of these early movements and the personal and practical implications for
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A Course in Academic Writing as a Vehicle for Personal Growth and Transformation Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Christina Alston, Fatemeh Mirghassemi, Conra D. Gist
Scholarly writing is traditionally written and reviewed with a positivist mindset, based on ideas of universal truths that typically remove subjectivisms, cultural experiences, and marginalized voices from the writing process. Writing in this manner fails to recognize how the societal and internalized ideas of white dominance can negatively influence how Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)
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Our Identities as Academic Writers: An Autoethnographic Approach Toward Linguistic Solidarity Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Diana Liu, David Beauzil, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
In this article, we reflect on our identities as English educators of color and how they have influenced our journey to becoming academic writers. Through reconciliation with our collective experiences of linguistic violence, we share how the experiences have impacted the ways we show up as secondary and higher education English educators in our classrooms. We authentically represent our sense-making
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Composting: A Writing Practice of Wellness for Academics of Color Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Michael W. Moses II
Despite documented accounts from academics of color, literature about academic writing often overlooks their experiences as racially minoritized writers. This article addresses this limitation by situating Natalie Goldberg’s (2016 Goldberg, N. (2016). Writing down the bones: Freeing the writer within. Shambhala. [Google Scholar]) composting as a writing practice of wellness. I begin by defining composting
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Liberating Our Writing: Critical Narratives and Systemic Changes in Education and the Social Sciences Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Lara Perez-Felkner, Melanie Jones Gast, Sarah M. Ovink
We outline our evolution as Latina, Asian, and White women sociologists using a social justice lens while studying transitions to college among youth of color. During our graduate training and early academic careers, we felt pushed to center “mainstream” theories, which often failed to account for the power struggles and intersectional oppression our reading and empirical investigations uncovered.
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Detoxing the Trauma of Academic Writing for Black Scholars: Vulnerability, Authenticity, and Healing Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Cherrel Miller Dyce, Jesse R. Ford, Brandy S. Propst
This article first contextualizes the authors’ perspectives and purpose to aid the reader in situating the narratives of three Black scholars. Their stories are woven together to help other Black scholars navigate and detox from the trauma of academic writing in higher education. Collectively, the authors, via a co-constructed dialogic space, offer inclusive healing practices and strategies to maintain
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Lessons on Academic Writing: What I Learned About Myself, Us, and the Work Ahead Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Conra D. Gist
For Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) scholars, reflecting on our journey to becoming academic writers can reveal important lessons for crafting justice oriented academic futures. Interweaving the pain, joy and wisdom from narratives on academic writing, this piece synthesizes BIPOC scholars’ lessons learned, representing the experiences of doctoral students, early career and midcareer
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Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deafness and Music in CODA and Other Movies Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Bernard Beck
CODA is an honored movie that combines important elements of several recent movies. The presentations of a thriving deaf community and a unique artistic community are rich and nuanced. The dilemma of a world dependent on high quality sound and a world without sound are explored and made poignant. The complexities of lives managed between separate and seemingly incompatible cultures are revealed in
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Reviews of Educational Films Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Robin Brenneman
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2022)
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Editorial Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Kevin Roxas, Alyssa Dunn
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2022)
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“Never Anything About the Asian Experience”: An AsianCrit Analysis of Asian American Teachers in the Midwest Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Jung Kim
Although Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial minority group in the United States, projected to be 10% of the population by 2050, they only comprise 2% of the teaching force. There is relatively little research about the experiences, recruitment efforts, or retention of Asian American teachers. This qualitative study seeks to add to the extant literature by seeking to better under the experiences
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Navigating a Curriculum of American Exceptionalism: An Asian American Child’s Story Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Sohyun An
What should U.S. schools teach about U.S. actions abroad when students in the classroom have varied or conflicting memories, ideas, and experiences? Should schools teach the dominant narrative of U.S. benevolence and innocence in world affairs so as to instill patriotism in children? What kind of patriotism are we concerned with here? Or should schools teach the dominant narrative because counterstories
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“Sorry It Took a Pandemic and Multiple Murders to Get Here”: The Impact of Twin Pandemics on EDI in a Predominantly White School District Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Brett Russell Coleman, Erin Beattie, Alina Raetz, Kevin Wang
This study examined the impact of the racial justice movement that emerged in the United States after the murder of George Floyd and during the first year of the covid-19 pandemic on the discussion around equity and diversity initiatives in a predominantly White school district. We conducted thematic analyses of public communications of school district officials and community members and applied an
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Collateral Damage: The Life of Bystanders in Belfast and Don’t Look Up Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Bernard Beck
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2022)
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Anti-Asian Racism and Racial Justice in the Classroom Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Ryan Shin, Jaehan Bae, Borim Song
This article discusses the urgent issues and concerns about anti-Asian racism in our society and provides several pedagogical strategies to counter anti-Asian racism. We begin by discussing the history and context of anti-Asian racism in the US, from which we trace the historical origins and contexts of anti-Asian racism, violence, and stereotypes in popular culture and media. After that, we share
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Art as Radical Act: Teenagers Revisit Identity, Diversity, and Social Justice Through Contemporary Art Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Borim Song
In this article, I share ways in which I have used the artworks of contemporary artists to encourage middle school students to reflect on the concepts of identity, diversity, and social justice. Specifically, I focus on the Comfort Hair series by Yuni Kim Lang, a Michigan-based Korean American artist, and a piece from the Giant series, “Kikito (Tecate, Mexico-USA, 2017),” by French street artist JR
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September 11th and the Uvalde, Texas Shooting Multicultural Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath
Published in Multicultural Perspectives (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2022)