Culture and Power in the Classroom

Antonia Darder was born in Puerto Rico in 1952 and raised in East Los Angeles.As a young single mother of three children on welfare, she began her studiesat Pasadena City College in 1972. She currently holds the Leavey PresidentialEndowed Chair in Education at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.Darder is the author of several books and coauthor of the recently publishedAfter Race: Racism after Colonialism (NYU Press).

“This revised 20th anniversary edition of Culture and Power in the Classroom is a timely signpost for teachers, parents, students, and other cultural workers who are seeking meaningful education in a climate of gross inequalities. Like Freire, Darder makes praxis the central concept by creating space for the voices of students, parents, and teachers to speak on the limits of monocultural and monolingual educational policies and the possibilities of culturally democratic schooling—a gem of a book.” —Peter Mayo, University of Malta “Twenty years after the first edition of Culture and Power was published, it remains one of the most influential books in critical bilingual and multicultural education. In this new edition, Antonia Darder again challenges educators of bicultural students to gain greater clarity in discerning the hurtful beliefs, practices, and real material conditions that are too often normalized and thus rendered ideologically invisible. Culture and Power is most timely given the urgent call to prepare teachers to courageously and decisively name and, once and for all, extricate the harmful hidden curriculum in these frightening times.” —Lilia Bartolome, University of Massachusetts–Boston

• Chapter 1 The Problem with Traditional American Pedagogy and Practice; Chapter 2 The Link Between Culture and Power; Chapter 3 A Critical Theory of Cultural Democracy; Chapter 4 Testing, Inequality, and the Brain; Chapter 5 The Foundation For a Critical Bicultural Pedagogy; Chapter 6 Creating the Conditions For Cultural Democracy in the Classroom; Chapter 7 Forging a Critical Bicultural Praxis; Chapter 8, Paulo Freire;