Since the 1980s, "Rethinking Schools" magazine has been renowned for its commitment to racial equality in education. Now, "Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice" has collected the best Rethinking Schools articles that deal with race and culture. "Rethinking Multicultural Education" moves beyond a simplistic focus on heroes and holidays to demonstrate a powerful vision of anti-racist, social justice education. Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, "Rethinking Multicultural Education" reclaims multicultural education as part of a larger struggle for justice and against racism, colonization, and cultural oppression--in schools and society. This book contains four sections. Section I, Anti-Racist Orientations, contains the following: (1) Taking Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education Seriously: An interview with Enid Lee; (2) Origins of Multiculturalism (Christine Sleeter and Peter McLaren); (3) What Do We Need to Know Now? (Asa G. Hilliard, III); (4) Diversity vs. White Privilege: An interview with Christine Sleeter; (5) The Forgotten History of Eugenics (Alan Stoskopf); (6) Standards and Tests Attack Multiculturalism (Bill Bigelow); (7) Race and the Achievement Gap (Harold Berlak); and (8) Once Upon a Genocide: Columbus in children's literature (Bill Bigelow). Section II, Language, Culture, and Power, contains the following: (9) Putting Out the Linguistic Welcome Mat (Linda Christensen); (10) My Mother's Spanish (Salvador Gabaldon); (11) Taking a Chance with Words: Why are the Asian American kids silent in class? (Carol A. Tateishi); (12) Black English/Ebonics: What it be like? (Geneva Smitherman); (13) Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction (Lisa Delpit); (14) Defending Bilingual Education (Kelley Dawson Salas); (15) Bilingual Education Works (Stephen Krashen); (16) Raising Children's Cultural Voices (Berta Rosa Berriz); and (17) And Then I Went to School (Joe Suina). Section III, Transnational Identities, Multicultural Classrooms, contains the following: (18) What Happened to the Golden Door?: How my students taught me about immigration (Linda Christensen); (19) Bringing Globalization Home (Jody Sokolower); (20) Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas (Stan Karp); (21) Welcoming Kalenna: An early childhood teacher strives to make all her students feel at home (Laura Linda Negri-Pool); (22) You're Asian. How Could You Fail Math?: Unmasking the myth of the model minority (Benji Chang and Wayne Au); (23) Edwina Left Behind (Soren Wuerth); (24) Language Lessons: Using student assistants to bridge culture and language (Denise Hanson-Rautiainen); (25) Putting a Human Face on the Immigration Debate (Steven Picht-Trujillo and Paola Suchsland); and (26) The Puerto Rican Vejigante: Teaching art in its social and cultural context (Patty Bode). Section IV, Confronting Race in the Classroom, contains the following: (27) Decolonizing the Classroom: Lessons in multicultural education (Wayne Au); (28) Brown Kids Can't Be in Our Club (Rita Tenorio); (29) What Color Is Beautiful? (Alejandro Segura-Mora); (30) Race: Some Teachable-and Uncomfortable-Moments (Heidi Tolentino); (31) Exploring Race Relations (Lisa Espinosa); (32) Reconstructing Race (Nathaniel W. Smith); (33) Presidents and Slaves: Helping students find the truth (Bob Peterson); (34) From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday (Kate Lyman); (35) On the Road to Cultural Bias: A critique of the "Oregon Trail" CD-ROM (Bill Bigelow); (36) For My People: Using Margaret Walker's poem to help students "talk-back" to stereotypes and to affirm their self worth (Linda Christensen); (37) Math, SATs, and Racial Profiling (Eric Gutstein); (38) Bringing the Civil Rights Movement into the Classroom (Larry Miller); (39) "We Need to Know This!": Student power and curriculum (Jody Sokolower); and (40) Bias and CD-ROM Encyclopedias (Bob Peterson). An index is included.