商品簡介
In this first of a series on critical race theory in education, Fletcher (Michigan State U. College of Law) uses fictionalized narrative concerning a Michigan Indian tribe, loosely based on the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, to examine a range of modern educational issues facing American Indians in grade schools, colleges, and professional schools. Seven narratives feature a community activist seeking to change the sports team name of the local high school; a high school history teacher working to improve the curriculum concerning American-Indian relations; two Indian high school students falsely accused of starting a fight with a non-Indian student; an Indian student weighing the social, political, and familial motivations for attaining a college education; Indian students confronting a secret society on a University campus that mocks American Indian cultures; Indian students and a white professor exposing another non-Indian academic who falsely writes from an Indian perspective; a first amendment legal dispute concerning a presentation by a traditional pipe carrier in a public school classroom; and a Supreme Court case concerning whether a private school founded by the tribe can refuse to accept non-Indians. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Matthew L.M. Fletcher is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center.
