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 collabourator with Noam Chomsky on the recently published book, Chomsky On Miseducation. His published work has been translated into several languages.

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• Foreword -- Foreword to the Expanded Edition -- Induction: The Power of “the Personal” -- Introduction -- Literacy for Stupidification: The Pedagogy of Big Lies -- Our Common Culture: A Poisonous Pedagogy -- Our Uncommon Culture: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Language -- English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America -- Educational Reform: Literacy and Poverty Pimps -- Charitable Racism: Imposing Democracy Undemocratically -- Afterword: That Which Was True Yesterday Is Even More True Today

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 collabourator with Noam Chomsky on the recently published book, Chomsky On Miseducation. His published work has been translated into several languages.

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• Foreword -- Foreword to the Expanded Edition -- Induction: The Power of “the Personal” -- Introduction -- Literacy for Stupidification: The Pedagogy of Big Lies -- Our Common Culture: A Poisonous Pedagogy -- Our Uncommon Culture: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Language -- English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America -- Educational Reform: Literacy and Poverty Pimps -- Charitable Racism: Imposing Democracy Undemocratically -- Afterword: That Which Was True Yesterday Is Even More True Today

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 collabourator with Noam Chomsky on the recently published book, Chomsky On Miseducation. His published work has been translated into several languages.

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• Foreword -- Foreword to the Expanded Edition -- Induction: The Power of “the Personal” -- Introduction -- Literacy for Stupidification: The Pedagogy of Big Lies -- Our Common Culture: A Poisonous Pedagogy -- Our Uncommon Culture: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Language -- English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America -- Educational Reform: Literacy and Poverty Pimps -- Charitable Racism: Imposing Democracy Undemocratically -- Afterword: That Which Was True Yesterday Is Even More True Today