Multicultural Education

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This paper introduces and analyzes Howards's book about racism in public education and then, using examples from the book, demonstrates that Howards's goal is to make educators aware of the existing racist phenomena in schools and teaching centers, as well as help them identify possible means by which such racism can be fought.

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"If we are to refer to the author's own experience, we should start by mentioning perhaps his first cultural conflict, as he relates it. Speaking about identity, he identifies his great grandfather's farm in Minnesota to be one of the focal points of his cultural heritage. Land represents for Gary Howard, as for many other American families, a place where the roots of the family come together and where a common identity is formed. However, he discovered that the lands that his family presently owns were once in the possession of the Ojibwa tribe and that, unconsciously and indirectly, he was one of the beneficiaries of racial exploitation that has marked America for the last centuries."

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