The Handbook of Race and Adult Education: A Resource for Dialogue on Racism

by Editor: Vanessa Sheared (Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA); Editor: Juanita Johnson-Bailey (University of Georgia, Athens, GA); Editor: Scipio A. J. Colin; Editor: Elizabeth Peterson; Editor: Stephen D. Brookfield (University of St. T

• ISBN13: 9780470610671
• ISBN10: 0470610670
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

While much attention has been given to inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism within adult education, The Handbook of Race and Adult Education is the first comprehensive work to engage in a dialogue specifically about race and racism and the effect these factors have on the marginalization or oppression of groups and individuals.This landmark book provides the field of adult and continuing education with a model for the discussion of race and racism from social, educational, political, and psychological perspectives, and seeks to articulate a conceptual challenge to the ethnocentric focus of the discussion in the field. It offers adult education scholars, as well as those engaged in research and teaching about race, an opportunity to engage in a discourse about race and racism, including examinations of how these factors have been seen through multiple theoretical frameworks; how they have affected many lived experiences at work, home, and within educational settings; and how they have served to privilege some and not others. The book offers an exploration into how these factors need to be centered in a discourse and perspective that can provide those in the margins as well as in the center with ways to think about creating changes in their classrooms, communities, and homes.This volume is a timely addition to the intense racial debate occurring in this country today. It is a long overdue medium through which those in higher education, as well as the general adult education field, can engage in a discussion that leads to critical understanding and moves us into meaningful change.

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

The Beginning: Kitchen Table Dialogue

The Myth Versus the Reality of Race and Racism

Rebirth of the Indigenous Spirit: Turning the World Right Side Up

Reading, Writing, and Racism: Developing Racial Literacy in the Adult Education English Classroom

Experiencing the Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Divide in Academia: A Chicana Perspective

Transforming Teaching and Learning: Teaching Race

"Who Is This Cowboy?" Challenging the Cultural Gatekeepers

Healing: A Journey Through Conversations on Race and Gender

Problematizing "Whiteness," Supremacy, and Privilege: Their Impact on Race

White Whispers: Talking About Race in Adult Education

Transforming White Consciousness

Adult Education and the Problem of the Color (Power) Line: Views from the Whiter Side

White on White: Developing Capacity to Communicate About Race with Critical Humility (European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness)

Struggling: A Journey of Comfort and Discomfort

Theoretical Responses to Race and Racism

An Exploration of Critical Race Theory

Musings on Controversial Intersections of Positionality: A Queer Crit Perspective in Adult and Continuing Education

Challenging Racism Through Postcolonial Discourse: A Critical Approach to Adult Education Pedagogy

Black Skins, No Mask

Immigration, Racial Identity, and Adult Education: Reflections on a Transnational Paradigm of Resistance

A River Runs Through It: Building Bridges Across Racial Divisions in Urban Graduate Education

Looking Inward: A Journey Through Dialogue and Reflections on Race

Reframing the Field Through the Lens of Race

Mammies, Maids, and Mamas: The Unspoken Language of Perceptual and Verbal Racism

The Race Card

Expanding the Racialized Discourse: An Asian American Perspective

Challenges and Approaches to Racializing Discourse in a Privileged, White Dominant Society

Using an African-Centered Paradigm for Understanding Race and Racism in Adult Education

Inpowering the Self: A Journey Toward Ending Racism

Individual and Collective Responses to Race and Racism

Epilogue: Implications for Curriculum, Programming, and Research

Index

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