Donaldo Macedo

[2][3] He has published extensively in the areas of linguistics, critical literacy, and bilingual and multicultural education.

[1] Macedo co-authored two books with Freire, Literacy: Reading the Word and the World (1987) and Ideology Matters (2002).

His other publications include: Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know (1994), Dancing With Bigotry (with Lilia Bartolome, 1991), and Critical Education in the New Information Age (with Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and Paul Willis, 1999).

[5] In 1966, the family immigrated to the United States, and settled in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts; three years later, Macedo's parents moved his siblings to the nearby coastal town of Kingston, while he remained in Dorchester with his grandmother to finish his studies at English High School.

[1] In 1989 he completed a PhD in applied linguistics at Boston University,[6] with a dissertation on Cape Verdean Creole.