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DIVERSITY IN AMERICA:
TEACHING STUDENTS TO KNOW, TO
CARE, AND TO ACT IN GLOBAL TIMES
James A. Banks Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies
and Director, Center for Multicultural Education
University of Washington, Seattle
To Know ,To Care, To Act
Statistics on Immigration to the U. S.
Between 2006 and 2015, 81.6% of the legal immigrants to the
United States came from nations in Asia and Latin America,
9.7% came from Africa, and just 8.2% came from Europe (U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, 2016).
In 2015, people of color made up 38.4% of the total U.S.
population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2016).
There were 11.1 million undocumented immigrants in the United
States in 2014. This number has been steady since then (Pew
Research Center, 2016).
Percentage and Number of People of
color in the U. S., 2015
The total U. S. population in 2015 was approximately 321.5
million. Non-Hispanic Whites were 61.6% of the population;
People of Color were 38.4 percent of the population or about
123.5 million people.
Asians Now Outpace Mexicans In Terms of
Undocumented Growth
Asians now represent a third of the foreign-born
population in the United States—equal with the Mexican
foreign-born population. They also represent 14 percent of
the unauthorized population. That number will grow in the
coming decade.
Indians, South Koreans, and Chinese among the fastest-
growing segments of undocumented immigrants.
Percentage of Students of Color in US
Public Schools, 2014
A 2014 report by the National Center for Education Statistics
indicated that students of color accounted for 50.3% of the public
school student population in that academic year (2014).
This is the link to the full
report: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014051.pdf
States with Majority Students of color in 2013-
2014 in Public Schools (Listed alphabetically)
1. Alaska
2. Arizona
3. California
4. Delaware
5. Florida
6. Georgia
7. Hawaii
8. Louisiana
9. Maryland
10. Mississippi
11. Nevada
12. New Jersey
13. New Mexico
14. New York
15. Texas
States with Majority Students of color in 2013-
2014 in Public Schools (Listed in descending order of
percentage of minority students)
1. Hawaii
2. New Mexico
3. California
4. Texas
5. Nevada
6. Arizona
7. Florida
8. Maryland
9. Georgia
10. Mississippi
11. New York
12. Louisiana
13. Delaware
14. New Jersey
15. Alaska
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the
Oppressed
States that we must teach students to read
the word and the world. Reading the word
requires basic knowledge and skills.
Reading the world requires that students
question assumptions, paradigms, and use
knowledge to make the world more just and
humane.
Many People Have Multiple
National Commitments
Aihwa Ong, “Flexible Citizenship”
Will Kymlicka, “Multicultural Citizenship”
Worldwide Immigration
The number of people living outside their nation
of birth grew from 120 million in 1990 to 244
million in 2015.
Migrants who lived outside their nation of birth
made up 3.3% of the world’s population of 7
billion in 2015.
Source: United Nations International Migration Report 2015
Immigrants to Europe from its
Former Colonized Nations
The Empire Strikes Back: Race and
Racism in 70s Britain. Centre for
Contemporary Culture Studies,
University of Birmingham, UK, 1982.
Top Ten Countries with Largest Number of International Immigrants (2015)
6
7
8
8
8
9
10
12
12
46
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Spain
Australia
Canada
France
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
Germany
Russian Federation
United States of America
in millions
Source: United Nations International Migration Report 2015
Harm J. De Blij (2008), The Power of Place: Georaphy,
Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape
De Blij challenges Friedman’s
argument that the world is flat. He
distinguishes
Globals
Mobals
Locals
Balancing Diversity and Unity
(1)
Diversity and unity should co-exist in
a delicate balance in democratic
multicultural nation-states.
The Need to Balance Unity and
Diversity (2)
Unity without diversity results in cultural repression and
hegemony (Cultural Revolution in China, 1966-1976; Break
up of Soviet Union, December, 1991).
Diversity without unity leads to Balkanization and the
fracturing of the nation-state (August, 1947, the partition of
India which led to the establishment of three sovereign
states: Islamic Republic of Pakistan, People’s Republic of
Bangladesh, and the Republic of India).
The Resurgence of Religion in the
Developing World
God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is
Changing the World by John Micklethwait &
Adrian Woodridge. New York: Penguin Press,
2009.
Nations Represented at the Bellagio
Conference (2004)
Brazil
Canada
China
Germany
India
Israel
Japan
Palestine
Russia
South Africa
United Kingdom
United States
Intersectionality
Describes the ways in which the
variables of diversity intersect and
interrelate. These interactions are
myriad and complex.
Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a
Global Age
Download at Center for Multicultural
Education
http://education.washington.edu/cme/
CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND GLOBAL
MIGRATION
Talaris Seattle Conference, June 22-26, 2015
Nations Represented at Talaris conference:
Brazil - Canada - China - France - Germany - Israel - Kuwait - Lebanon - Mexico - Norway -
Singapore - South Korea - Turkey - United States - United Kingdom
Interactive Nature of Cultural, National, Regional, and Global
Identifications
Global
Identification
Cultural
Identification
National
Identification
Regional
Identification
The Individual
Deculturalization
Joel Spring, Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality:
A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in
the United States.
Angela Valenzuela, Substractive Schooling: U. S.-Mexican
Youth and the Politics of Caring
William Greenbaum, “Hope and Shame”
Five whacks from a ping-pong paddle for speaking
Spanish.
Indian students forced to stand on a milking stool in a dark
from in a cellar for speaking Paiute, her native language.
Amy Gutmann, Democratic Education
Schools should provide students with
Civic equality
Recognition
Toleration
Martha Nussbaum:
Cosmopolitanism: “[Cosmopolitans’]
allegiance is to the worldwide community
of human beings.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah
In the final message my father left for me
and my sisters, he wrote:
“Remember you are citizens of the
world.” But as a leader of the independence movement in what was
then the Gold Coast, he never saw a
conflict between local partialities and
universal morality—between being a part
of the place you were and a part of a
broader human community.
Cosmopolitanism: Ethnics in a World of Strangers. New York:
Norton, 2006, p. xvii
MAJOR GOALS OF AN EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL
CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
To Know (Knowledge),To Care, To Act
Ella
Baker Fannie Lou
Hamer
Daisy
Bates
Rosa Parks:
“People always
say that I didn’t give up my seat
because I was
tired, but that isn’t true…the only tired
I was, was tired of
giving in.”
Marian Wright Edelman & Audrey Lorde
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr.
James Baldwin “Stranger in the Village”
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