Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning

Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning

EXPLORATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE Volume 27 Founding Editor Joe Kincheloe (1950 2008) Series Editors Shirley R. Steinberg, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Kenneth Tobin, City University of New York, USA Editorial Board Barrie Barrell, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Rochelle Brock, University of Indiana, Gary, USA Stephen Petrina, University of British Columbia, Canada Christine Quail, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA Nelson Rodriguez, College of New Jersey, USA Leila Villaverde, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA JohnWillinsky, Stanford University, USA Series Scope In today s dominant modes of pedagogy, questions about issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism, religion, and other social dynamics are rarely asked. Questions about the social spaces where pedagogy takes place in schools, media, and corporate think tanks are not raised. And they need to be. The Explorations of Educational Purpose book series can help establish a renewed interest in such questions and their centrality in the larger study of education and the preparation of teachers and other educational professionals. The editors of this series feel that education matters and that the world is in need of a rethinking of education and educational purpose. Coming from a critical pedagogical orientation, Explorations of Educational Purpose aims to have the study of education transcend the trivialization that often degrades it. Rather than be content with the frivolous, scholarly lax forms of teacher education and weak teaching prevailing in the world today, we should work towards education that truly takes the unattained potential of human beings as its starting point. The series will present studies of all dimensions of education and offer alternatives. The ultimate aim of the series is to create new possibilities for people around the world who suffer under the current design of socio-political and educational institutions. For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7472

George J. Sefa Dei Mairi McDermott Editors Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning

Editors George J. Sefa Dei Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada Mairi McDermott Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ISSN 1875-4449 ISSN 1875-4457 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-7626-5 ISBN 978-94-007-7627-2 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7627-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013952904 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher's location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

We dedicate this book to all anti-racism educators who work for a better now.

Contents 1 Introduction to the Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning... 1 George J. Sefa Dei and Mairi McDermott Part I Intersectional Analyses: Rethinking Anti-Racism Education, Masculinity and the Politics of Sexuality 2 A Prism of Educational Research and Policy: Anti-Racism and Multiplex Oppressions... 15 George J. Sefa Dei 3 Homonormativity Inside Out: Reading Race and Sexuality Into an LGBT Film Festival Opening Gala... 29 David Pereira 4 Progressive Discipline, Regressive Education: The Systematic Exclusion of Black Youth In and Through Expulsion Programmes... 43 Camisha Sibblis Part II Policy and Curriculum: Questions of Whiteness, Aboriginal Education, and Indigeneity 5 Moving Towards an Anti-racism Curriculum... 61 Chrissy Michelle Deckers 6 Aboriginal Education in Teacher Education: Beyond Cultural Inclusions... 71 Susanne Waldorf vii

viii Contents 7 Indigenous Education in Colonizing Space: Reflections on the Law, Education, and Indigenous Rights in Chile... 87 Ximena Martínez Trabucco Part III Representations: The Media, Discursive Authority, and Counter Narratives 8 You Make Our Lives Better : Education and the Detention of Tamil Refugee Children... 111 Gillian Geetha Philipupillai 9 The Single Story of Somalia and Western Media Misrepresentations... 121 Hodan Yusuf 10 Multiculturalism: The Missing Bodies and Voices... 135 Ayla Raza 11 To Speak, Know, Live and Feel Asian : For an Anti-racist Approach on the Study of Asians in Canada... 149 Kenneth Huynh Part IV Autoethnography: On Coalition Building, Identity and Belonging, and Decolonization 12 Honoring Gaswentah: A Racialized Settler s Exploration of Responsibility and Mutual Respect as Coalition Building with First Peoples... 165 Min Kaur 13 Entre el Aquí y el Allá: International Schooling and the Colonized Mind... 175 Alexandra Arráiz Matute 14 (Re)Turning Home: An Exploration in the (Re)Claiming of Identity and Belonging... 191 Theresa Smith 15 Mo(ve)ments of Affect: Towards an Embodied Pedagogy for Anti-racism Education... 211 Mairi McDermott Notes on Contributors... 227 Index... 231