Living up to its title, this text facilitates compelling consideration of civic education theory and what expanded conceptualization of citizenship means for practice.
Teachers College Record Banks effectively highlights the diverse struggles of historically marginalized groups in the United States in a way that threads these seemingly separate struggles.
Comparative Education Review The biggest contribution of this book is its consideration of the educational implications of a narrow focus on legal citizenship and the responsibility of educators to expand conceptions of rightful membership.
Harvard Educational Review Angela Banks has written a book that proposes powerful concepts and questions for the civic education curriculum.
Multicultural Perspectives In addition to providing an interdisciplinary rationale for an approach to civics education that is grounded in the necessary interrogation of exclusionary boundaries in taken-for-granted principles such as those commonly accepted about citizenship, Banks incisively demonstrates how these unquestioned democratic ideals also mask racism, classism, and other forms of prejudice and discrimination.
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies
