This essay uncovers assumptions underlying perspectives on race and enables a more strategic approach to transforming racism. It defines five positions - race-supremacy, race-blindness, race-sensitivity, race-critical, and anti-racism - that suggest a pathway of moral and political development that can guide work in schools and society to overcome racism. The goal of the analysis is not to assign blame for either the past or the present; rather, the aim is to provide a framework to support individual and collective responsibility and accountability that can lead to the achievement of a greater measure of justice. Race-critical anti-racism education links people to the history of struggles for justice, and links them to one another for the struggles ahead, thus bringing the dream of a just democracy closer to realization.
race; racism; anti-racism education