Belkhir's bibliography, introduction, and history. [online].
Available: http://www.saber.towson.edu/vanfoss/intro&hi.htm (February
14, 2000).
I searched through many sites on multicultural education, but what
I
wanted was to find someone's thoughts on this topic. Most of
the websites
I looked into included references and books to buy and read.
Then I found
this great little personal web page
(http://www.saber.towson.edu/vanfoss/intro&hi.htm), written by
a student
without any fancy links, but just some helpful information on race,
gender
and class. The author attempts to connect the three elements
of race,
gender, and class. They accomplish this by reviewing the history
of these
elements from the beginning to the present, and also over the last
two
decades. What I really liked was their thoughts on the whole
topic that
the neglect of either race, gender, or class we are missing a part
of the
whole picture of multiculturalism. It made me realized that when
we look
at a particular "ism" like sexism, we are also dealing many times with
other "isms" like classism and racism.
Five questions I have for the author or others:
1) Why do you think in the last decade that scholars have begun to
emphasize the interrelatedness between the "isms" of race, gender,
and
social class?
2) How can multicultural education help "as a disciplinary
development", as the author stated? Can the definition of multicultural
education combat against the injustices or is more needed?
3) How can we make our classrooms more of a place of freedom where
"men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover
how
to participate in the transformation of their world."
4) The author lists the various phases of the multicultural movement
according the Banks. Would you put ethnic studies as the first
stage, or
something else?
5) Black Women's studies often connect gender, race and class.
What
are some other connections between other minorities and other terms
of
discrimination?
Submitted by Amy Watson.
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