Beyond comfort zones in multiculturalism : confronting the politics of privilege
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Beyond comfort zones in multiculturalism : confronting the politics of privilege
(Critical studies in education and culture series)
Bergin & Garvey, 1995
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For peoples whose legal agreements, treaties, and other accords and conventions with the United States have been violated, multiculturalism as a pedagogical tool often becomes suspect of reinforcing the continued reification and abstraction of their cultures and nations with little if any real meaning for educational and social transformation. The continued oppression and repression of the exercise of self-determination for African Americans; the persistence of policies aimed at the destruction of indigenous populations and land; the insidious continuation of classical colonialism in the case of Puerto Rico are all vivid reminders to these peoples of the racist, classist, sexist, and homophobic patriarchy that characterizes their status. In order to restore people's rights to fully determine their own histories, Jackson and Solis point out that it is imperative to destroy the material foundations that breed and recycle the ideology, discourse, and cultural practices of domination. It is not enough to celebrate diversity and difference; there must be grand-scale social, political, economic, and educational transformation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Series Foreword by Henry A. Giroux Introduction: Resisting Zones of Comfort in Multiculturalism by Sandra Jackson and Jose Solis From I to We: Self-Determination and the Multicultural White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of U.S. Higher Education by Ward Churchill Multiculturalism: War in America Continues by Imari Abubakari Obadele Nuestra Realidad: Historical Roots of Our Latino Identity by Felix Masud-Piloto Racism: White Skin Privilege The Politics of Culture: Multicultural Education After the Content Debate by Cameron McCarthy and Arlette Ingram Willis Academic Apartheid: American Indian Studies and "Multiculturalism" by Marie Annette Jaimes * Guerrero The Doorkeepers: Education and Internal Settler Colonialism, the Mexican Experience by Priscilla Lujan Falcon Gendered Subjectivities Negotiating Self-Defined Standpoints in Teaching and Learning by Sandra Jackson Entre la Marquesina y la Cocina by Jose Solis Deconstructing Mainstream Discourse Through Puerto Rican Women's Oral Narratives by Lourdes Torres Curriculum, Canon, and Syllabi: Who's Teaching What and How Education in Community: The Role of Multicultural Education by Terence O'Connor Core Culture and Core Curriculum in South Africa by Neville Alexander The Peer Review Group: Writing, Negotiation, and Metadiscourse in the English Classroom by Linda Williamson Nelson The Cultural Ethos of the Academy: Potentials and Perils for Multicultural Education Reform by Geneva Gay and Wanda Fox Index About the Contributors
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