Critical Race Theory and Education

A Marxist Response

Mike Cole

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781349950782
• eBook ISBN: 9781349950799
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

This book, now in its second edition, focuses on the challenge to Marxism posed by Critical Race Theory as this relates to educational theory, policy, and practices with respect to both the US and UK. Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the realm of Education has a long history in the US, and is now a burgeoning field of inquiry in the UK. Critical Race Theory and Education is the first book-length response to CRT from a Marxist perspective and looks at CRT's origins in Critical Legal Studies, critiques the work of major US and UK Critical Race theorists, and also looks at some of CRT's strengths. CRT and Marxism are contextualized with respect to both neo-liberal global capitalism and imperialism and to anti-racist socialist developments in South America. The book concludes with some suggestions for classroom practice.

Table of contents

• Series Editor Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Critical Race Theory: Origins and Varieties
• Chapter 3: White Supremacy and Racism; Social Class and Racialization
• Chapter 4: The Strengths of CRT
• Chapter 5: Multicultural and Antiracist Education in the US and the UK
• Chapter 6: CRT Comes to the UK: A Critical Analysis of David Gillborn’s Racism and Education
• Chapter 7: Neoliberal Global Capitalism and Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter 8: Marxism and Twenty-First Century Socialism
• Chapter 9: CRT and Marxism: Some Suggestions for Classroom Practice
• Chapter 10: Conclusion
• Postscript
• References
• Index