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“At a time of significant world disruption imbued with egregious social inequalities, Kathryn E. McIntosh offers a radical, liberating vision of multicultural education connected to a view of mindfulness that employs critical race feminist perspectives. Like Latina feminist scholar Gloria E. Anzaldúa and others before her, McIntosh recognizes the importance of internal work in the struggle for social transformation. This view of multicultural education is exactly what is needed now to cultivate a new generation of sentipensantes, students able to work with both their intel- lectual ability and their sensory processes to dream new dreams and to tip the consciousness of the world toward equity and justice” Laura I. Rendón, author of Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy, Stylus Press “Situated within feminist critical race theory, this book makes an inval- uable contribution to both mindful pedagogy and multicultural edu- cation. It problematizes and deepens Western mindfulness discourse by powerfully integrating embodied pedagogies and the work of femi- nists of color. Both scholarly and practical, the book offers mindfulness lessons that can be applied directly to one’s pedagogy. Mindfulness in Multicultural Education will help prepare future teachers for staying com- passionate, centered, and attuned in the classroom. What an important contribution to the field!” Beth Berila, Ph.D., Professor in the Ethnic, Gender & Women’s Studies Department at St. Cloud State University “Kathryn McIntosh pushes the borders of mindfulness in education, challenging educators to integrate mindfulness practices rooted in our bodies, emotions, spirituality, and communities. Mindfulness in Multicultural Education is designed to support girls and women of color, who have all too often experienced oppression and injustice within the educational system. Through storytelling and sharing her direct experi- ences, McIntosh provides an expansive and practical guide to teaching mindfulness in ways that are healing, humanizing, loving, equitable, and ultimately, liberating.” Janine Schipper, Professor of Sociology, Northern Arizona University, and co-author of Teaching with Compassion: An Educator’s Oath to Teach from the Heart “This is a book that is for all people interested in liberation; liberation from oppressive systems of society and the unease many people, espe- cially in minoritized populations, suffer from racism and oppression. Dr. McIntosh applies a critical feminist perspective to her mindfulness journey and weaves her story into the tapestry of thinking and activism around social change and contemplative practice to give us some hope in an uncertain time. The only reason I wanted to put the book down was to get on my sitting cushion and change the world.” Dr. Jeffrey Proulx, Mindfulness Center at Brown University, co-author of Beyond White Mindfulness: Critical Perspectives on Racism, Wellbeing and Liberation MINDFULNESS IN MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION Grounded in critical race feminism, this book explores mindfulness as an empowering approach in multicultural education. The author explores how learners of multicultural education—by (re)centering the body through mindfulness with concrete strategies and scaffolded practice—can be empowered to handle the activated emotions and deep self-inquiry that come with the work of social justice, liberation, and anti-racism. This book includes counter stories of students of colors and offers both an epistemo- logical and a curricular approach to mindfulness in multicultural education, including discussion of theory and key principles in addition to ten modules with practices to engage learners. These modules can be directly applied as the basis for curricular changes in teacher education and university-wide social justice courses, or they can be independently read by learners inter- ested in enhancing their wellbeing and social justice. Written for teacher preparation and university social justice courses, this book encourages edu- cators to contextualize their mindfulness practice within a critique of sys- tems of oppression and ask questions about how mindfulness can empower action towards a more just society. Kathryn Esther McIntosh is Associate Professor in the College of Edu- cation, Oregon State University. Her work focuses on teacher preparation, critical multilingual and multicultural, and language equity education. She is the daughter of a Peruvian immigrant and has taught Spanish/English bilin- gual elementary school in California before moving to higher education. Her research is grounded in critical race feminisms, pedagogies in critical multi- cultural education, and Latinx communities in education. She has published about culturally responsive practices in teacher education, focusing on the difficult emotional work of preservice teachers in raising consciousness. She has completed more than 340 hours of yoga philosophy/meditation immersion training, has 200-hour Yoga Alliance teacher certification, and has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for fourteen years. MINDFULNESS IN MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION Critical Race Feminist Perspectives Kathryn Esther McIntosh Cover image: © Getty Images First published 2023 by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 and by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 Kathryn Esther McIntosh The right of Kathryn Esther McIntosh to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McIntosh, Kathryn Esther, 1973- author. Title: Mindfulness in multicultural education : critical race feminist perspectives / Kathryn Esther McIntosh. Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022008130 (print) | LCCN 2022008131 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032118581 (paperback) | ISBN 9781032118574 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003221869 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Multicultural education--Psychological aspects. | Feminism and education. | Social justice and education. | Mindfulness (Psychology) Classification: LCC LC1099 .M34 2023 (print) | LCC LC1099 (ebook) | DDC 370.117--dc23/eng/20220511 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022008130 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022008131 ISBN: 978-1-032-11857-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-11858-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-22186-9 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003221869 Typeset in Bembo by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. This book is dedicated to my two children Emma and Oliver who are so filled with heart and compassion for people and Earth. Also to the strong Latina women in my family. And to my graduate students who inspire me and undergraduates engaged in this project with an open heart. CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Permissions xx PART I Overview 1 1 An Overview of Mindfulness in Multicultural Education and Critical Race Feminism 3 PART II Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations 25 2 Mindfulness in Context 27 3 Critical Race Feminisms 62 4 Critical Multicultural Education, Spirituality, and Liberating Pedagogy 89 5 Students’ Voices: Empirical Research Findings (Co-Authored by Raisa Blazquez) 108

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