What's identity got to do with it? Mobilizing identities in the multicultural classroom

In Linda Alcoff (ed.), Identity politics reconsidered. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan (2006)
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Abstract

In this book chapter, Moya argues that recognizing, indeed mobilizing, identities in the classroom is a necessary part of educating for a just and democratic society. Only a truly multi-perspectival, multicultural education can create the conditions needed to alter the negative identity contingencies that minority students commonly face, while creating opportunities for all students. By treating identities as epistemic resources and mobilizing them, we can draw out their knowledge-generating potential and allow them to contribute positively to the production and transmission of knowledge.

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Paula Moya
Stanford University

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