Overview
This autobiographical volume will foster a deeper understanding of racism, discrimination, and inequality in all its subtleties. Through storytelling, framed within the life journey of a South African sociologist of Indian ancestry, this book examines how marginalized communities lived with, fought, and braved racial engineering under apartheid. Moodley shares her experiences of living, studying, and teaching race, ethnicity, identity, nationalism, and critical multiculturalism in five countries: South Africa, the United States, Germany, Egypt, and Canada. Everyday experiences are blended with academic interpretations, so readers gain insights from what is in part memoir and in other parts educational lessons drawn from numerous micro experiences. Subjects range from indentured labor to expropriation, the influences of Gandhi and Mandela, anti-Semitism in Europe to welfare colonialism in Canada, sectarianism in the Middle East to strategies for combatting bigotry in America. Book Features: Presents autobiographical material buttressed by strong theoretically driven social science research findings. Connects personal, cultural, and political landscapes to promote a global political literacy. Sketches subjects such as indigeneity (First Nations in Canada), memorialization in Germany (Holocaust), and sectarianism in the Middle East. Assesses the impact of role models and leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. Examines how past injustices can be addressed both symbolically and materially.
Full Product Details
Author: Kogila Moodley ,
Sonia Nieto ,
James A. Banks
Publisher: Teachers' College Press
Imprint: Teachers' College Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.368kg
ISBN: 9780807764893
ISBN 10: 0807764892
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 04 December 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"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"
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
Author Information
Kogila Moodley is professor emerita of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and the first holder of the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education.
