Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development [Paperback]

Enid Lee (Editor), Deborah Menkart (Editor), Margo Okazawa-Rey (Editor)

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"Beyond Heroes and Holidays" renewed my hope that schools may yet find ways to address the debilitating legacy of racism. This book is a toolkit for unpacking years of personal, institutional, and historical baggage and raising hard issues in cons tructive ways. It shows how the trendy but soft and superficial multiculturalism now prevalent in schools might become more robust and powerful. It moves beyond "celebrating diversity" to understanding why some differences translate into access to privile ge and power, while others are a source of discrimination and injustice. With its many practical strategies for creating dialogue and real change in school communities, "Beyond Heroes and Holidays" left me hopeful that we might yet move to a higher ground of mutual understanding and join in a common struggle for justice in schools and out. -- Stan Karp, H.S. teacher English/journalism; co-editor of Rethinking Schools, in Educational Leadership, May 1998

Beyond Heroes and Holidays is a find. It offers insight into how the traditional American educational system perpetuates racism in all curricular areas. It provides a rich array of resources, models and strategies for promoting multicultural educa tion. And it can be used by all teachers-new as well as experienced, K-12 as well as university-level. This book is for anyone who has either wondered or been asked, "How can I incorporate multicultural education into my classroom?" -- David Stone, Assistan t Professor in Counselor Education at Ohio University, in Democracy and Education, Fall 1998

About the Author

Enid Lee consults internationally on language, culture and race as they relate to equity in education and organizational development. She is a public speaker, facilitator, writer, community builder and Director of Enidlee Consultants. Enid has taught school in the Caribbean and Canada and has been writing about racism and education for the last 15 years. Her publications include "Letters To Marcia: A Teacher's Guide To Anti-Racist Education" and the docudramas "Quick To Judge" and "Food For Tho ught" in the television series "Many Voices." She advocates for parents in school systems and helps build self-determined Black communities in the cities where she works. Through her consulting firm, Enid assists urban school districts and individual scho ols to restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. She holds a Masters Degree in Caribbean Literature and Linguistics. Her current area of research is the development of anti-racist school climates. E-mail: [e-mail]

Deborah Menkart is the Director of the Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA). She has developed and taught a staff development course for the D.C. Public Schools called "Teaching for Equity: Theory and Practice of Multicultural Education." Deborah h as co-edited a number of publications including "Teaching About Haiti" and "Rediscovering America." She holds a Masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction from The George Washington University and has taught both high school and adult education classes. E-mail: [e-mail]

Margo Okazawa-Rey is Professor at the School of Social Work, San Francisco State University. She works in university, public school and community settings addressing the issue of racism and other forms of oppression through activist scholarship, education , and political organizing. She is particularly interested in the problems affecting peoples of color, especially women of color. Margo's current research/activist project is examining the effects of and organizing against violence against women and child ren by the U.S. military in East Asia, which also includes documenting the experiences of mixed-race children, the offspring of GIs and Asian women. Margo has served on various editorial boards of academic journals and boards of directors of community org anizations and has worked with grassroots organizing groups in Boston and the San Francisco Bay area. Among her most recent publication is "Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives" (Mt. View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1998) co-edited with Gwyn Kirk. E-ma il: [e-mail]

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Network of Educators on the Americas; 1st edition (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878554115
• ISBN-13: 978-1878554116
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #540,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development (Paperback)

As someone in the field of anti-racist public education, I found this book very useful and thought-provoking. There are background and theory articles, lesson plans, handouts, and a complete range of resources. And all these items are in bite-size articles and excerpts that make them very practical and useful for staff and students. I was thrilled to find this book and even more thrilled to read through it!