Kumashiro, Kevin K.

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Kumashiro, Kevin K.

PERSONAL:

Ethnicity: "Asian American." Education: University of Wisconsin—Madison, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1040 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607. E-mail—kumashiro@antioppressiveeducation.org.

CAREER:

National Education Association, Washington, DC, senior program specialist in human and civil rights, 2004-06; University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, associate professor of education, 2006—. Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, director, 2002—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, 2003, for Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Anti-Oppressive Education.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2001.

Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Anti-Oppressive Education, Routledge (New York, NY), 2002.

(Editor) Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists, Harrington Park Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning toward Social Justice, Routledge (New York, NY), 2004.

(Editor, with Bic Ngo) Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2007.

Coeditor of special issue, Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 2006.

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