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The function of ethnic studies education in K-12 schools remains a deeply contentious issue within the U.S. Often based on university ethnic studies courses, its focus on the lived experiences of Black, Latino, Indigenous, and Asian/Pacific Islander communities is predictably the target of much conservative commentary, leaving its disregard for the lives of American Jews underexplored. Focusing on how this absence correlates with the rising spate of antisemitism within the U.S., Jewish Inclusion in Ethnic Studies Education provides a clarifying re-examination of the current issues and oversights affecting ethnic studies teaching. In doing so, Daniel Ian Rubin illuminates the possibilities a reformed ethnic studies program offers for eliminating antisemitism among the next generation.
“In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Daniel Ian Rubin builds a conceptual, contextual, practical, and, at times, personal argument for including Jewish perspectives in K-12 Ethnic Studies curricula, while also chronicling the covert antisemitic logics that have contributed to the exclusion of Jewish voices… Those who care about inclusion and the support of all marginalized or minoritized students—and those who have themselves ignored or condemned calls for Jewish inclusion in Ethnic Studies—would do well to read this book.” • Mara Lee Grayson, Ph.D., author of Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric
Daniel Ian Rubin is Senior Lecturer of Education at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. He has published extensively in the areas of antisemitism, ethnic studies in K-12 schools, social justice, and multiculturalism and diversity, in the context of both education and society. His recent publications include; The Jewish Struggle in the 21st Century: Conflict, Positionality, and Multiculturalism (Brill, 2021); A Time of Covidiocy: Media, Politics, and Social Upheaval (Brill, 2021), and Multiculturalism, Dialectical Thought, & Social Justice Pedagogy: A Study from the Borderlands (Information Age Publishing, 2017).
Author’s Note
Chapter 1. Ethnic Studies and the Absence of Jews
Chapter 2. Positionality, Reflexivity, and the State of Israel
Chapter 3. “Liberated” Ethnic Studies and the Arguments Against Jewish Inclusion
Chapter 4. Underlying Assumptions for Jewish Exclusion
Chapter 5. The Ethnic Studies Backlash
Chapter 6. Where We Stand and What May Someday Be
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index