Donaldo Macedo
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1950 –
Who is Donaldo Macedo?
Donaldo Macedo is a Cape Verdean-American critical theorist, linguist, and expert on literacy and education studies. Macedo is professor of English and a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was the Graduate Program Director of the Applied Linguistics Master of Arts Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
He has published extensively in the areas of linguistics, critical literacy, and bilingual and multicultural education. His publications include: Literacy: Reading the Word and the World, Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know, Dancing With Bigotry, Critical Education in the New Information Age, Chomsky on Miseducation and Ideology Matters.
Macedo was raised in an immigrant community in Dorchester, Massachusetts. His engagement in grassroots community political work informs his academic research.
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