Citation

Hurtado A, Silva JM. New Dir. Child Adolesc. Dev. 2008; 2008(120): 17-30.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/cd.213

PMID

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Abstract

Multicultural education emerged from the political struggles of the 1960s and 1970s and advocated the inclusion of women and ethnic and racial groups in school curricula and children's media. Recently multiculturalism has evolved to include a critical perspective by focusing on stigmatized social identities such as race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and disability. Little Bill, a children's animated television series, is an example of applied critical multiculturalism. In this chapter, we present a case study of one episode, “A Ramp for Monty,” to illustrate the merits of this approach, which may increase the number of social identities children relate to and increase the degree of understanding they may bring to the differences inherent in social identities. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.