A Multicultural Education
In The White Boy Shuffle , Gunner initially lived in Santa Monica and went to an “all-white multicultural school”. They were always taught not to judge anyone based on the color of their skin, or just to be colorblind. The 3 rd grade teacher, Ms. Cegeny, wore that shirt that went along with this colorblind ideology, but she seemed to pay special attention to all the non-white kids in the class, which doesn’t seem super colorblind. Just in general, the multicultural education they get seems to have good intentions but it’s sorta off and doesn’t really work. Gunner ended up being more whitewashed than multicultural which is super obvious from when he moves to Hillside. He really didn’t know anything about his own culture or I’m guessing any other cultures, even though he had a multicultural education. Up until 4 th grade, I went to Southview Elementary in Jackson, Ohio which was a majority white town. I was the only muslim & brown kid there (other than my sister...