Kanaka 'Ōiwi Critical Race Theory: Historical and Cultural Ecological Understanding of Kanaka 'Ōiwi Education

Race, Class, and Cultural Reproduction: Critical Theories in Urban Education

In spite of decades of reform attempts urban education remains an intractable policy issue for educators. National and state level data continue to show disparities in educational achievement and attainment between students from affluent and poor urban communities. If past policies have not proven to be effective in substantially improving urban educational systems the question is why? In this ...

Cracking Silent Codes: Critical race theory and education organizing

A Critical Race Theory Intervention into the Cultural Defense Debate

The cultural defense is an informal term that describes the use of cultural information to mitigate criminal responsibility, often used in conjunction with traditional defense strategies such as provocation or insanity. Arguments for the cultural defense include respecting cultural practices under the liberal narrative that frames the United States as a multicultural and pluralistic society. Ad...

Toward a Cultural-Historical Understanding

Mediation is a key notion in dialectical approaches to understanding consciousness, thinking, and thought. However, the scholarly literature is replete with uses of the notion that are inconsistent with the dialectical framework within it, which has the specific function to articulate and explain the unit of a phenomenon and the corresponding unit of scientific analysis. The purpose of this pap...

“Race” and Sport: A Critical, Historical Examination

The original terms of this article called for a discussion of the literature on race and sport, international in scope and covering the 10 years since the first retrospective issue in 1983. Little of that agreement has been honored in this essay. Not even the title is exactly the same, for the quotation marks around race symbolize the author’s rejection of the term’s common meaning. What the re...