No Child Left Behind and the Problem
of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Zeus Leonardo

FREE and Open to the Public

6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus
Terrence Murphy Hall, Thornton Auditorium
1000 LaSalle Ave., Minneapolis, MN
(Corner of 10th Street and LaSalle Avenue)

Much has been written about the nature of “white privilege” in the recent growth of whiteness studies. These concerns have been articulated in studies of everyday forms of assumed privileges, whiteness as performance, and even “whiteness as terror.”

In this presentation, more formalized aspects of white privilege will be examined by analyzing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Many have critiqued NCLB as it affects children of color, poor students, or immigrants; however, less attention is paid to the way it creates U.S. nationhood through the social construction of whiteness. In other words, how does NCLB construct and imagine the white nationhood?

Join a leading educator on race relations, Zeus Leonardo, for a stimulating presentation. An interactive discussion and Q&A session follows from 8-8:30 p.m. 

Sponsored by the University of St. Thomas Doctorate in Critical
Pedagogy.

Zeus Leonardo

Zeus Leonardo is the acting director of the Center for Multicultural Studies at the
University of Washington, Seattle, and associate professor of social and multicultural foundations in the College of Education at California State University, Long Beach. His books include Ideology, Discourse, and School Reform (2003), Critical Pedagogy and Race (editor, 2005), and Charting New Terrains of Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Education (co-editor, 2000).