Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
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An updated edition of the classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom.
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Literary book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s “fantastic books,” Additional People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.
In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning leader Lisa Delpit develops thoughts about ways teachers can be better “cultural transmitters” in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many literary problems attributed to children of color are really the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and “additional people’s children” struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.
A new classic among educators, Additional People’s Children is a must-read for teachers, administrators, and parents striving to improve the quality of America’s education system.
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This book arrived in perfect condition, on time, and it was appealing as well!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This has got to be the largest bunch of racist (i.e., anti-white) nonsense I’ve ever read. The following passage is a perfect example:
“Several black teachers have said to me recently that as much as they’d like to judge otherwise, they cannot help but conclude that many of the ‘progressive’ educational strategies imposed by liberals upon black and poor children could only be based on a desire to ensure that the liberals’ children get sole access to the dwindling pool of American jobs. Some have added that the liberal educators judge themselves to be operating with excellent intentions, but these excellent intentions are only conscious delusions about their unconscious right motives.”
Isn’t this just a small paranoid?
If I could have agreed it zero stars, I would have. My only guess as to why such a high percentage of favorable reviews appear here is that Amazon refused to publish the privileged number of negative reviews (probably because they were, rightfully so, pretty inflammatory in scenery).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I am going for my masters in secondary education and I was required to read this book in one of my graduate classes. All I can say is that this is by far the most racist book I have ever read. This book really should be renamed “Mein Kampf II”, or at least “How to Handle the White Devil”. As an example, written in her book, Adolf “Lisa Delpit” has “The only difference between black folks and white folks is that black folks know when they are lying.” This is just the tip of the iceberg; there are many additional racist remarks that are in this book. Not only is she racist to white people, she also inadvertently seems to be racist to her own people. I some how got the feeling that see implies that black children should not be required to speak proper English is the classroom (I say proper but Adlof would say standard as if to say that it is arbitrary, and that there wasn’t really a proper English. Just us evil white devils trying to say there is.) By the way her book is written in perfect “standard” English, I guess her editor felt otherwise.
It absolutely incredible to me how a name like this is praised, with the Quarterly Black Review calling her a godsend and a visionary, While Don Imus is fired for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team a “bunch of nappy headed ho’s”. While I feel that both are racist and incorrect, Imus’s comments were merely off handed remarks while Adolf’s remarks were well thought out and subsequently published. I marvel what would take place if there was a Quarterly White Review, and it called Don Imus a visionary.
With this being said I guess there is a place for this book in the educational system, just as I feel there is a role for Mein Kampf. There are lessons to be learned from every book. For instance in Adolf’s book I learned that even though a name went to Harvard University that doesn’t mean that they are intelligent.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I previously wrote a scathing review of this book, and I guess Amazon.com did not print it because I don’t see it here. Delpit is an African-American principal, or was a principal. I feel that her book depicts white teachers as wimpy, ignorant, and incompetent to face multicultural classrooms.
Being the enemy (a female teacher of European descent), I am constantly facing frustration on reaching my students who enter school not knowing letters, colors, or sometimes their own name (I am not kidding). It’s also reasonably a task reaching parents who do not speak English, do not attend conferences or open house, do not return information to me (even when sent home in their native language), do not return phone calls, do not check their child’s backpack, and work one or more full time jobs.
I wish Delpit had offered some constructive criticism as a replacement for of pointing fingers. I have to admit that the book gave me much to ponder, and that she made some thought provoking accusations. Sorry to say, her negative opinions of me as a teacher (even though she’s never met me) serves as yet another reminder of how split by race and culture our country still is.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Living and teaching in a multiethnic county such as SF, I establish this book inspiring and eyeopening. I am guessing persons of you who are not educated enough to read this book, (or better yet to pose an intelligent comment of the book…)should start with opening your eyes to the world of today and get out of your house more regularly. Thanks for such a excellent read!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5