Reviews
"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 intellectual 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 invaluable contribution to both mindful pedagogy and multicultural education. It problematizes and deepens Western mindfulness discourse by powerfully integrating embodied pedagogies and the work of feminists 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 compassionate, 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 experiences, 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, especially 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