The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Education at Hampshire College is excited to invite you to a /Race Matters /Lecture given by Dr. Christine Sleeter on Wednesday, November 19th at 5:30pm in the Main Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College. Sleeter is an international reknowned scholar of Anti-Racist Multicultural Education and she will be speaking on /Critical Family History as a Tool for Confronting Today's Social Justice Issues.  

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emerita at California State University, Monterey Bay. She is the Immediate Past President of the National Association for Multicultural Education and recipient of the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award. Sleeter's most recent books include: /Power, Teaching and Teacher Education/ (Peter Lang, 2013), /Professional Development for Culturally Responsive//and/ /Relationship-based Pedagogy /(Peter Lang, 2013), and /Creating Solidarity across Diverse Communities/ (with Encarnación Soriano, Teachers College Press, 2012).

The Lecture is co-sponsored by the UMASS Center for Civic Engagement & Service-LearningCenter for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies, Department of Communication; Smith College Center for Community Collaboration and Center for Religious and Spiritual Life;  Dean of the College at Mount Holyoke College; Hampshire College Critical Studies of Childhood, Youth & Learning Program; the Five College Lecture Fund; and The Center for Community Engagement at Amherst College