Teaching anti-fascism : a critical multicultural pedagogy for civic engagement / Michael Vavrus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vavrus, Michael J., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)

Multicultural education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-fascist movements--Study and teaching--United States.

Anti-fascist movements.

Fascism--United States--History--20th century.

Fascism.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

xiv, 206 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2022]

Summary:

This books examines how fascist ideology has taken hold among certain segments of American society and how this can be addressed in curriculum and instruction. Vavrus presents middle, secondary, and college educators and their students with a conceptual framework for enacting a critical multicultural pedagogy by analyzing discriminatory discourse and recommending civic anti-fascist steps people can take right now.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I "GOOD TROUBLE"

1. "U.S. Gov't Is Soft on Fascism"

Countering a Master Narrative of American Exceptionalism

A Brief Cataloguing of American Tendencies Toward Fascism

Civics Miseducation

Intersectionality, Critical Theory, and Anti-Fascism

A Critical Civic Education

Contested Terminology

Overview of Organization and Content of Chapters

Bridging the Gap Between Community-Based Anti-Fascists and Schools

2. "It Can't Happen Here": Fascist Politics in America

Anti-Fascist Intercultural Civic Education

Neo-Fascism and Far-Right Extremism

Far-Right Backlash Against Protests and Loss of the Presidency

Educational Disconnect From Contemporary Anti-Fascism

pt. II UNPACKING IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATIONS

3. Historical Foundations of Fascist Politics

Composite of Historical Characteristics of Fascism

Rabid Social Darwinism

Ultranationalism

Malevolent Charismatic Leader

Anti-Democracy

Patriarchal Sexuality

Anti-Intellectualism

Cultural and Phenotype Racisms

Anti-Socialism

Militarized Society

4. Contemporary Far-Right Extremism

Ideological Shift in Political Discourse After September 11, 2001

Decentralized Leadership of the Far Right

Ideal Traits of U.S. Far-Right Extremism

White Supremacist Nationalism

Anti-Government Insurgency

Misogynistic Postfeminism

Evangelical Christian Absolutism

Far-Right Normalization of Political Violence

Comparisons Between Far-Right Extremism and Conservativism

5. Everyday Anti-Fascism and the Struggle for a Multicultural Democracy

Foundational Traits of 21st-Century Anti-Fascism

U.S. Suppression of Working-Class Anarchists

Nonfascism

Anti-Fascism

Absence of Anti-Fascism in the School Curriculum

pt. III INDICATORS OF COLONIAL PROTO-FASCISM AND U.S. FASCIST POLITICS

6. Othering: Genocidal Racist and Nativist Fascist Politics

Genocidal Elimination of the Other

Genocide of Indigenous People

Genocide of People of African Origins

Genocide of Migrants and Citizens as the Other

Genocide of People of Asian Origins

Genocidal "Science" of Eugenics

Maintenance of Fascistic Cultural Racisms

Anti-Semitic "Judeo-Bolshevism"

Islamophobia

Incorporation of Genocidal Characteristics Into an Anti-Fascist Civic Education

7. Political Economy of Fascistic Land and Property Confiscation

Civic Education With an Anti-Fascist Political Economy Knowledge Base

Monopoly Capitalism and Property

Genocidal Appropriation and Accumulation of Land Through Segregation

Land

European International Law of "Discovery"

Black Struggle for Property Rights

Class, Economic Stratification, and Land

Contemporary Class Relations and Land for Housing

Claiming Public School Land as Anti-Fascist Civic Education Sites

8. Fascist Warriors: Police and Military as Fictitious Guardians

Origins of Concept of Police and Policing

"First Civil Right"

The Constitution and the Second Amendment

As If It Had Never Happened: Use of Excessive Force

Fascist History of 9-1-1 as Response to Civil Rights Protests

Gangs and KKK in Police Uniforms

Far-Right Police Unions

White Nationalists' Nightmare: Black Lives Matter Movement

Legalized State Killing of the Other

Critical Effects From Ferguson Legal Rulings

Racist Impetus for Police in Schools

Militarization of Police

Twenty-First-Century Empire Building and Militarization of Students

Defund or Abolish Prisons and Police?

Fascistic Creep Into Youth Socialization

pt. IV AN ANTI-FASCIST "READING THE WORLD"

9. "Reading the World": Civic Anti-Fascism for Teacher Education

Youth Actions Independent of a Status Quo Education

Possibilities and Challenges of a Critically Informed Civic Education

The Anti-Fascist Civic Role of Teacher Education

Teacher Education Anti-Fascist Rubrics

Movement Toward an Anti-Fascist Civic Education

10. Continuing to Read the World Through a Critical Civic Lens

"U.S. Gov't Is Soft on Fascism" (Chapter 1)

"It Can't Happen Here": Fascist Politics in America (Chapter 2)

Historical Foundations of Fascist Politics (Chapter 3)

Contemporary Far-Right Extremism (Chapter 4)

Everyday Anti-Fascism and the Struggle for a Multicultural Democracy (Chapter 5)

Othering: Genocidal Racist and Nativist Fascist Politics (Chapter 6)

Political Economy of Fascistic Land and Property Confiscation (Chapter 7)

Fascist Warriors: Police and Military as Fictitious Guardians (Chapter 8)

"Reading the World": Civic Anti-Fascism for Teacher Education (Chapter 9).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-197) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780807766965

0807766968

OCLC:

1319484943