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Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response

By Mike Cole

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
0230613357, 9780230613355
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
37 MB (39125427 bytes)
Series
Marxism and Education
Edition
1
Pages
228\105
Time added
2015-01-20 22:26:49

Description

Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the realm of Education has a long history in the US, and is now a bourgeoning field of enquiry in the UK. Critical Race Theory and Education is the first book-length response to CRT from a Marxist perspective. It looks at CRT’s origins in Critical Legal Studies, the varieties of CRT, critiques the work of major US and UK Critical Race Theorists and also looks at some of CRT’s strengths. CRT and Marxism are contextualized with respect to both neo-liberal global capitalism and imperialism and to antiracist socialist developments in South America. The book concludes with some suggestions for classroom practice Cole's recent article in Times Higher Education:http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405060&c=1

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