Towards Building Anti-Racist Communities

A Focus on Intersectionalities
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-78892-128-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 896 g

Invites readers to undertake active leadership addressing equity in their own contexts.

Aimed at educators and community members seeking to build an anti-racist society, this book examines lived teaching and researching experiences which illustrate and challenge the inequities that arise in classrooms with diverse student bodies. The authors draw on the constructs of intersectionality and complexity to examine complex issues of race, language variety, religious practice, educational background, social status, family relationships, institutional and local context and historical memory.

Through honest and transparent reflection on actual experiences the book invites readers to bravely acknowledge the political and practical constraints they face, critically assess their own practice, and from this develop authentic pedagogies and relevant practical actions to better serve the communities within which they live and work. Readers seeking to build an anti-racist society will benefit from these inspirational narratives of courage in the face of inequities in daily life, classrooms and communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Austin, Theresa Y.

Eisenstein Ebsworth, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part 1: Within-Group Perspectives

Chapter 1. Shelton K. Johnson and John E. Petrovic: Discussing Race and White Emotionality: Teachers, Learners and Pedagogy

Chapter 2. Karen Julien and Lyn Trudeau: Balancing Emotional Safety and Brave Accountable Spaces to Discuss Hard Truths about Race and Inclusion in Higher Education Classrooms

Chapter 3. Darold Harmon Joseph, Chris Lanterman, Catharyn C. Shelton, Christine K. Lemley, Jennie DeGroat, Alma Montemayor-Sándigo, James K. Ingram and Hoda Harati: Where Are We From?: Drawing on 'Peoplehood' to Humanize Higher Education Anti-Racist Work

Chapter 4. Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Katherine O’Connor and Jimmy Fuller: Subversive Power of Intersectionality: Counterstory Analysis of Biracial and Multiracial Microaggressions among School-Age Learners

Chapter 5. Laurie Hahn Ganser: Translanguaging Pedagogies in the Anti-Racist Classroom

Part 2: Examining Perspectives across Groups

Chapter 6. Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Rihab Alsulami, Tonya DeGeorge, Brooks Salter, Cheryll Thompson-Smith, Ethan Trinh and Sterline Caldwell: Coming to Consciousness in a Teacher Education Doctoral Course through Paired Critical Curriculum Development

Chapter 7. Luis E. Poza, Rebeca Burciaga, Marcos Pizarro, Heather Lattimer, Saili Kulkarni, Sudha Krishnan, Kyoung Mi Choi, Robert Marx, Marcella McCollum and Marisol Quevedo: Emancipatory Education as Praxis

Chapter 8. Atiya McGhee, Masumi Hayashi-Smith and Brett Collins: Race Affinity Spaces: Complexities for Self-Identification

Chapter 9. Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth and Timothy John Ebsworth: A Reflexive Study of a Teacher and Teacher Educator: Addressing Conflicts of Identity, Language, Values and Race

Part 3: Examining Multilingual Multiracial Issues

Chapter 10. Kristin A. Sinclair  and Sabrina Wesley-Nero: 'If Not Me, Who?': Working toward Anti-Racism through Race-Based Affinity Groups for Future Education Professionals

Chapter 11. Aída Nevárez-La Torre and Xueyi Luo: Intersectionality of Language, Race and Poverty in Education: Urban Teachers’ Perspectives

Chapter 12. Haidy G. Díaz: Understanding the Differences in Latinx Communities to Better Understand Intragroup Culture

Chapter 13. Sayonara Tomoum and Theresa Austin: What, Me a Racist? Impact of (Mis)identification in Complex Interracial Interactions in Higher Education

Part 4: Institutional/Community Perspectives

Chapter 14. Samina Hadi-Tabassum: Building Black and Brown Coalitions

Chapter 15. Kristen L. White, Laura M. Kennedy and Briana L. Bancroft: Using Children’s Literature to Facilitate Anti-Racist Pedagogy: An Interdisciplinary, Rural-Based Collaboration

Chapter 16. Shelley Wong, Dawn Hathaway, Sujin Kim, Nader Ayish, Anita Bright, R. V. Pierre Rodgers and Anwar Hussein-Abdel Razeq: An Anti-Racist Faculty Book Club: Multi-Voiced Dialogues for Self-Reflection and Decolonizing Teacher Education

Chapter 17. Stella L. Smith, Kristin D. Medlin, Lauren A. Wendling and Katie A. Evans: Infusing Anti-Racism into Community Engagement: A Community Dialogue on Institutions of Higher Education

Chapter 18. Lauren Mark: Approaching Anti-Racism through Intersectionality, Reciprocity and the Bittersweetness of Radical Listening

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eisenstein Ebsworth, Miriam
Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, New York University-Steinhardt, USA. She is co-editor of Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion (with R. Pandaharipande and M. David, 2020 Multilingual Matters).

Austin, Theresa Y.
Theresa Y. Austin is a Professor in the College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. She is author of Engaging with Ethics in Multilingual Learning Communities. (with H. Celibi Celikkran, 2025, Mouton De Gruyter).

Theresa Y. Austin is a Professor in the College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. She is author of Engaging with Ethics in Multilingual Learning Communities (with H. Celibi Celikkran, 2025, Mouton De Gruyter).

Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, New York University-Steinhardt, USA. She is co-editor of Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion (with R. Pandharipande and M. David, 2020, Multilingual Matters).