MacArthur Award winner Lisa Delpit is the retired Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor of Education at Southern University. The author of the bestselling Other People’s Children and “Multiplication Is for White People,” co-editor (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) of The Skin That We Speak, co-editor (with Theresa Perry) of The Real Ebonics Debate, editor of Teaching When the World Is on Fire, and co-author (with Christopher Emdin) of The Sacred Art of Teaching (all published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Praise for Other People's Children:“Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice.”—San Francisco Review of Books “Here, finally, is multiculturalism with a human face.”—Teacher Magazine “Provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms.”—Harvard Educational Review

MacArthur Award winner Lisa Delpit is the retired Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor of Education at Southern University. The author of the bestselling Other People’s Children and “Multiplication Is for White People,” co-editor (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) of The Skin That We Speak, co-editor (with Theresa Perry) of The Real Ebonics Debate, editor of Teaching When the World Is on Fire, and co-author (with Christopher Emdin) of The Sacred Art of Teaching (all published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Praise for Other People's Children:“Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice.”—San Francisco Review of Books “Here, finally, is multiculturalism with a human face.”—Teacher Magazine “Provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms.”—Harvard Educational Review

MacArthur Award winner Lisa Delpit is the retired Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor of Education at Southern University. The author of the bestselling Other People’s Children and “Multiplication Is for White People,” co-editor (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) of The Skin That We Speak, co-editor (with Theresa Perry) of The Real Ebonics Debate, editor of Teaching When the World Is on Fire, and co-author (with Christopher Emdin) of The Sacred Art of Teaching (all published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Praise for Other People's Children:“Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice.”—San Francisco Review of Books “Here, finally, is multiculturalism with a human face.”—Teacher Magazine “Provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms.”—Harvard Educational Review