Critical Race Theory Perspectives on the Social Studies: The Profession, Policies, and Curriculum (PB)

by Gloria Ladson-Billings (Editor)

Overview

This text offers critical race perspectives on social studies. It is divided into four sections which focus on: the profession; the policies; the curriculum; and the technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593110345
Publisher:	Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	02/11/2005
Series:	Research in Social Education Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

1.	Lies My Teacher Still Tells: Developing a Critical Race Perspective Toward the Social Studies	1
Part I	The Profession
2.	A Bridge Over Troubled Water: Social Studies, Civic Education, and Critical Race Theory	15
3.	The Dis(g)race of the Social Studies: The Need for Racial Dialogue in the Social Studies	27
4.	From Liberal Teacher to Liberated Teacher Educator: A Reflection on My Journey Through the Profession	45
Part II	The Policies
5.	The Persistent Deracialization of the Agenda for Democratic Citizenship Education: Twenty Years of Rhetoric and Unreality in Social Studies Position Statements	71
6.	A Look at Race in the National Standards for the Social Studies: Another Bad Check	99
Part III	The Curriculum
7.	Deracialization in Social Studies Teacher Education Textbooks	123
8.	Uneasy Similarities, Uneven Parallels: Race, Sexuality and Civil Rights Discourse	149
9.	Ethnic Youth Programs: Teaching About Caring Economic Communities and Self-Empowered Leadership	171
10.	To Greet the Dawn with Open Eyes: American Indians, White Privilege and the Power of Residual Guilt in the Social Studies	199
Part IV	The Technology
11.	Learning from Black Folk(s): Race, Technology, and Society	231
12.	Race, Social Studies, and the World Wide Web	247
13.	Technology, Race Consciousness and the Oppressor: A Plea for the Performative	271
	About the Contributors	291