Race, Culture, and Politics in Education

Kogila Moodley is professor emerita of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and the first holder of the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education.

• Contents (Tentative)Series Foreword ames A. BanksPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Expropriation and Dislocation2. Relatives, Parents and CustomsMy Mother’s StoryMy Father’s Story3. Experiences in Apartheid EducationElementary SchoolSecondary SchoolUniversity Education4. Learning from Gandhi and Mandela: Lessons in Leadership5. A Visiting Student in the United States6. Teaching at a Tribal College7. An Enduring Friendship8. Germany: Cultural, Linguistic and IdeologicalBorder Crossings9. Experiences in Egypt: My Entry to the Middle East10. An Immigrant in CanadaForays Into Introspective ConscienticizationAttempts at Institutional Transformation11. Political Literacy as Strategy to Combat BigotryConclusion: Lessons Learned From Five Different Countries for Teaching Political Literacy South Africa, The United States, Germany, Canada, Egypt and the Middle EastAfterword Sonia NietoReferencesIndexAbout the Author

A tour de force. Moodley's journey gives readers new hope that educating for political literacy might reduce the insidious web of societal racism." - Rhona S. Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley"A delicate stitching together of social theory, political commentary, and memory." - Crain Soudien, CEO, Human Sciences Research Council"Combines an unfailing eye for telling details with an insightful social analysis of race and culture. A remarkable journey through historic junctures on three continents." - John Willinsky, Stanford University