Description:
A clarifying re-examination of the issues affecting ethnic studies education in K-12 schools, this book explores how the program's disregard for the lives of American Jews correlates with the increase in antisemitism with the U.S. Consequently, it advances a renewed framework for thinking about the Jewish experience in contemporary American education.
Brief description:
Daniel Ian Rubin is Senior Lecturer of Education at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. He has published extensively in the areas of antisemitism, ethnic studies in K-12 schools, social justice, and multiculturalism and diversity, in the context of both education and society. His recent publications include; The Jewish Struggle in the 21st Century: Conflict, Positionality, and Multiculturalism (Brill, 2021); A Time of Covidiocy: Media, Politics, and Social Upheaval (Brill, 2021), and Multiculturalism, Dialectical Thought, & Social Justice Pedagogy: A Study from the Borderlands (Information Age Publishing, 2017).
Review Quotes:
"In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Daniel Ian Rubin builds a conceptual, contextual, practical, and, at times, personal argument for including Jewish perspectives in K-12 Ethnic Studies curricula, while also chronicling the covert antisemitic logics that have contributed to the exclusion of Jewish voices... Those who care about inclusion and the support of all marginalized or minoritized students--and those who have themselves ignored or condemned calls for Jewish inclusion in Ethnic Studies--would do well to read this book." - Mara Lee Grayson, Ph.D., author of Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric