Identity in Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Identity, Realist Pedagogy, and Racial Democracy in Higher Education....Pages 9-43
What’s Identity Got to Do with It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom....Pages 45-64
Fostering Cross-Racial Mentoring: White Faculty and African American Students at Harvard College....Pages 65-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Which America Is Ours? Martí’s “Truth” and the Foundations of “American Literature”....Pages 103-130
The Mis-education of Mixed Race....Pages 131-150
Ethnic Studies Requirements and the Predominantly White Classroom....Pages 151-170
Historicizing Difference in The English Patient: Teaching Kip Alongside His Sources....Pages 171-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Teaching Disclosure: Overcoming the Invisibility of Whiteness in the American Indian Studies Classroom....Pages 191-209
Religious Identities and Communities of Meaning in the Realist Classroom....Pages 211-223
Postethnic America? A Multicultural Training Camp for Americanists and Future EFL Teachers....Pages 225-250
The Uses of Error: Toward a Realist Methodology of Student Evaluation....Pages 251-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-278