Donaldo Macedo is Professor of English and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a leading authority in language studies and has published extensively in the areas of Creole languages, critical literacy, biligualism, and multiculturalism. His publications include Literacy: Reading the Word and the Word (with Paulo Freire, 1987), Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance (with Lilia Bartolome, 1999), Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (with Howard Zinn, 2005) and Globalization of Racism (edited with Panayota Gounari, 2005). He is a collaborator with Noam Chomsky on the recently published book, Chomsky On Miseducation. His published work has been translated into several languages.

• Introduction, 1 Literacy for Stupidification: The Pedagogy of Big Lies, 2 Our Common Culture: A Poisonous Pedagogy, 3 Our Uncommon Culture: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Language, 4 English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America, 5 Educational Reform: Literacy and Poverty Pimps, 6 Charitable Racism: Imposing Democracy Undemocratically

Donaldo Macedo is Professor of English and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a leading authority in language studies and has published extensively in the areas of Creole languages, critical literacy, biligualism, and multiculturalism. His publications include Literacy: Reading the Word and the Word (with Paulo Freire, 1987), Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance (with Lilia Bartolome, 1999), Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (with Howard Zinn, 2005) and Globalization of Racism (edited with Panayota Gounari, 2005). He is a collaborator with Noam Chomsky on the recently published book, Chomsky On Miseducation. His published work has been translated into several languages.

• Introduction, 1 Literacy for Stupidification: The Pedagogy of Big Lies, 2 Our Common Culture: A Poisonous Pedagogy, 3 Our Uncommon Culture: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Language, 4 English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America, 5 Educational Reform: Literacy and Poverty Pimps, 6 Charitable Racism: Imposing Democracy Undemocratically