Critical Race Theory and Education A Marxist Response

by Cole, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780230608450
• ISBN10: 0230608450
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the realm of Education has a long history in the US, and is now a bourgeoning field of enquiry in the UK. Critical Race Theory and Education is the first book-length response to CRT from a Marxist perspective. It looks at CRT's origins in Critical Legal Studies, the varieties of CRT, critiques the work of major US and UK Critical Race Theorists and also looks at some of CRT's strengths. CRT and Marxism are contextualized with respect to both neo-liberal global capitalism and imperialism and to antiracist socialist developments in South America. The book concludes with some suggestions for classroom practice Cole's recent article in Times Higher Education:http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405060&c=1

Author Biography

Mike Cole is Research Professor in Education and Equality, Head of Research and Director of the Centre for Education for Social Justice at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK. He is the author of Marxism and Educational Theory: Origins and Issues, (2008), and the editor of Professional Attributes and Practice for Student Teachers, 4th Edition (2008), and Education, Equality and Human Rights, 2nd Edition (2006). He is the editor of Promoting Equality in Secondary/High Schools (forthcoming 2009).

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Critical Race Theory: Origins and Varieties	p. 7
White Supremacy and Racism; Social Class and Racialization	p. 23
The Strengths of CRT	p. 47
Multicultural Education and Antiracist Education in the United States and the United Kingdom	p. 65
CRT Comes to the United Kingdom: A Critical Analysis of David Gillborn's Racism and Education	p. 77
Neoliberal Global Capitalism and Imperialism in the Twenty-first Century	p. 95
Marxism and Twenty-first-Century Socialism	p. 113
CRT and Marxism: Some Suggestions for Classroom Practice	p. 133
Conclusion	p. 149
Postscript	p. 155
Notes	p. 157
References	p. 179
Index	p. 205
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