Oct 29 2024 59 mins
In this episode, I interview Dr. Wayne Au and Dr. Dolores Calderón, two of the three authors of the award-winning book and inspiration for the series, Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum: Communities of Color and Official Knowledge in Education. We discuss how different Communities of Color have resisted erasure from U.S. curriculum and the importance of recovering and synthesizing these histories in ways that are decolonial and outside the white gaze. The authors also discuss their approaches to recovering these histories and documenting the fight for structural and curricular inclusion in schools and self-determination among Communities of Color marginalized by race, ethnicity, culture, indigeneity, language, and/or immigration status in the U.S.