Identity in Education (Future of Minority Studies)

This Edited Volume Explores The Impact Of Social Identity (race, Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Religion And So On) On Teaching And Learning. Operating Within A Realist Framework, The Contributors To This Volume (all Of Whom Are Minority Scholars) Consider Ways To Productively Engage Identity In The Classroom And At The Institutional Level, As A Means Of Working Toward Racial Democracy In Higher Education. As Realists, All Authors In The Volume Hold The Theoretical Position That Identities Are Both Real And Constructed, And That Identities Are Always Epistemically Salient. Thus The Book Argues--from Diverse Disciplinary And Educational Contexts--that Mobilizing Identities In Academia Is A Necessary Part Of Progressive (antiracist, Feminist, Anticolonial) Educators' Efforts To Transform Knowledge-making, To Establish Critical Access For Minority Students In Higher Education, And To Create A More Just And Democratic Society. Identity, Realist Pedagogy, And Racial Democracy In Higher Education / Susan Sánchez-casal And Amie A. Macdonald -- What's Identity Got To Do With It? Mobilizing Identities In The Multicultural Classroom / Paula M.l. Moya -- Fostering Cross-racial Mentoring : White Faculty And African American Students At Harvard College / Richard J. Reddick -- Which America Is Ours? Marti's Truth And The Foundations Of American Literature / Michael Hames-garcia -- Mis-education Of Mixed Race / Michele Elam -- Ethnic Studies Requirements And The Predominantly White Classroom / Kay Yandell -- Historicizing Difference In The English Patient : Teaching Kip Alongside His Sources / Paulo Lemos Horta -- Teaching Disclosure : Overcoming The Invisibility Of Whiteness In The American Indian Studies Classroom / Sean Kicummah Teuton -- Religious Identities And Communities Of Meaning In The Realist Classroom / William S. Wilkerson -- Postethnic America? A Multicultural Training Camp For Americanists And Future Efl Teachers / Barbara Buchenau [and Others] -- Uses Of Error : Toward A Realist Methodology Of Student Evaluation / John J. Su. Edited By Susan Sánchez-casal And Amie A. Macdonald. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.