&quote;Multiplication Is for White People&quote; (eBook)

MacArthur "genius" award winner Lisa Delpit's article on "Other People's Children" for Harvard Magazine was the single most requested reprint in the magazine's history following its publication. Delpit expanded her ideas into a groundbreaking book with the same name, which won a Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association, Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, and was voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books." A recipient of the Harvard School of Education's award for an Outstanding Contribution to Education, she is dedicated to providing excellent education to communities both in the United States and abroad. She is a co-editor of The Real Ebonics Debate, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, and The Skin That We Speak(The New Press). Currently the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University, she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

CONTENTSAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: Yes, Diane, I’m Still Angry xvPart One: Inherent Ability1. There Is No Achievement Gap at Birth 32. Infinite Capacity 27Part Two: Educating the Youngest3. Stuff You Never Would Say: Successful LiteracyInstruction in Elementary Classrooms 534. Warm Demanders: The Importance of Teachersin the Lives of Children of Poverty 715. Skin-Deep Learning: Teaching ThoseWho Learn Differently 896. I Don’t Like It When They Don’t Say My NameRight”: Why Reforming” Can’t Mean Whitening” 105Part Three: Teaching Adolescents7. Picking Up the Broom: Demanding Critical Thinking 1238. How Would a Fool Do It? Assessment 1379. Shooting Hoops: What Can We Learn About theDrive for Excellence? 149Part Four: University and Beyond10. Invisibility, Disidentification, and NegotiatingBlackness on Campus 16911. Will It Help the Sheep? University, Community,and Purpose 193Appendix 207Notes 211