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I recently served as a reader of scholarship applications. The process included a complex algorithm for inclusion and took several criteria into account, like GPA, test scores, native languages, income level, assets, essays, parental education level and ethnicity. While providing this service, I came face-to-face with a misconception about race and ethnicity: Appearance predicts what language people speak.

For one family, finding a kindergarten classroom meant getting honest about race, class and privilege.

"She's just trying to act white." I remember those piercing but confusing words cutting me like a knife. I clinched my Super Reader certificate. My puzzled expression was taken as bravado by the African-American girls, who responded with a threatening question, "Do you want us to fix your face?"

Two leading multicultural educators reflect on how White teachers can help dismantle a legacy of racial domination and injustice.

Institutional racism can be hard to spot. Try our strategies for sniffing it out.