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City Kids

Transforming Racial Baggage

By: Maria Kromidas

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City Kids

Transforming Racial Baggage

By: Maria Kromidas

Cosmopolitanism—the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity—is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all. City Kids profiles fifth-graders in one of New York City’s most diverse public schools, detailing how they collectively developed a sophisticated understanding of race that challenged many of the stereotypes, myths, and commonplaces they had learned from mainstream American culture. Anthropologist Maria Kromidas spent over a year interviewing and observing these young people both inside and outside the classroom, and she vividly relates their sometimes awkward, often playful attempts to bridge cultural rifts and reimagine racial categories. Kromidas looks at how children learned race in their interactions with each other and with teachers in five different areas—navigating urban space, building friendships, carrying out schoolwork, dealing with the school’s disciplinary policies, and enacting sexualities. The children’s interactions in these areas contested and reframed race. Even as Kromidas highlights the lively and quirky individuals within this super-diverse group of kids, she presents their communal ethos as a model for convivial living in multiracial settings. By analyzing practices within the classroom, school, and larger community, City Kids offers advice on how to nurture kids’ cosmopolitan tendencies, making it a valuable resource for educators, parents, and anyone else who is concerned with America’s deep racial divides. Kromidas not only examines how we can teach children about antiracism, but also considers what they might have to teach us.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813584809

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9780813584805

City Kids

Transforming Racial Baggage

By: Maria Kromidas

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Transforming Racial Baggage

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I Am- Maria

By: Maria

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I Am- Maria

By: Maria

This is the story of my life interwoven with legends and other things that I found relevant. Child brutality, incest and witchcraft counterpoised with healing, beauty and things of the spirit. It will shock you, in part, enrich you, in part. You need not read the lot. Each part (there are 7) is complete

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168

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0646171321

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9780646171326

Limnopoula

The Precious European Bird

By: Maria I. Magkiroglou

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Limnopoula

The Precious European Bird

By: Maria I. Magkiroglou

An issue that concerns the European Union is the management of water recourses. Limnopoula is a teaching manual to get introduced preschoolers and first-grade students to the role of the Institution of the European Union through a fairy tale that combines realistic and mythical elements. In addition, this book is negotiating values such as communication, diversity, environmental protection, part of which is the water of the lakes, in a simple and attractive way, adopted to the level of preschool and early elementary education. Especially for educators and parents both, Limnopoula is a primer on involvement of children in drama, art activities, and educational games, such as puzzles or tombola. In the end of the book is proposed a variety of activities that strengthen educational purposes. Finally, the epilogue of the story reflects the dynamic and progressive role of the European Union Institution. Limnopoula isn't only a kind of a bird. In our story, Limnopoula is a bird of values!

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