On Class, Race, and Educational Reform: Contested Perspectives

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On Class, Race and Educational Reform provokes new dialogue between Marxists, critical race theory scholars, and other race-inspired educational theorists with the aim of countering racism and class inequalities. The book opens with a lead chapter by Howard Ryan, an educator, union activist, and independent researcher, that substantively engages questions of class, race, and educational reform. In response to the opening chapter educational theorists from Germany, South Africa, the UK and the USA, provide insightful and penetrating responses highlighting the differences and similarities in perspectives. The responses show how educators can overcome theoretical differences to create international collaborations and educational campaigns of solidarity that counter the treacherous impact of racism and class inequalities in the classroom and beyond. The book includes a Foreword by the philosopher Charles W. Mills (CUNY Graduate Center, USA) and an Afterword by Cedric G. Johnson, Professor of African-American Studies and Political Science (University of Illinois Chicago, USA). Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Editors’ Preface Foreword Part I: The Race-Class Debate in Education Chapter 1: Race, Class, and the Hidden Aims of School Reform Chapter 2: Doing Class in Critical Race Analysis of Education Part II: Responses from Marxist Perspectives Chapter 3: Centering the Oppressed: Marxism and the Question of Race and Class Chapter 4: “Race,” Class, and Education in South Africa Chapter 5: A Marxist Challenge to the Concept of “Race” Chapter 6: Race, Class, and Accumulation in Education: A Decolonial Marxist Perspective Chapter 7: A Marxist Critical Realist Perspective on Social Class and “Race” Chapter 8: The Exigency of Radical Class Politics: A Personal Journey Part III: Responses from Critical Race Theory and Allied Perspectives Chapter 9: Significance of a Race-Based Approach to Teacher Mobilization Chapter 10: Empire, Class, and the Struggle for Value in English Educational Reform Chapter 11: The Wall of Whiteness and White Supremacy Persists: A Critical Race Response Chapter 12: Academic Laboring with Critical Social Theories in a Torus of Education Reform Chapter 13: Capitalism and Caste Chapter 14: Critical Race Theory, Materialism, and Class Chapter 15: Engaging Islamophobic Racism in the Classroom Chapter 16: An Intersectional Reflection on Race, Class, and Education Reform Afterword Bibliography Contributors Index