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Beyond comfort zones in multiculturalism : confronting the politics of privilege / edited by Sandra Jackson and Jose Solis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical studies in education and culture series.
- Critical studies in education and culture series, 1064-8615
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multicultural education--United States.
- Multicultural education.
- Multiculturalism--United States.
- Multiculturalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Series Foreword""; ""1 Introduction: Resisting Zones of Comfort in Multiculturalism""; ""PART I: From I to We: Self-Determination and the Multicultural""; ""2 White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of U. S. Higher Education""; ""3 Multiculturalism: War in America Continues""; ""4 Nuestra Realidad: Historical Roots of Our Latino Identity""; ""PART II: Racism: White Skin Privilege""; ""5 The Politics of Culture: Multicultural Education After the Content Debate""; ""6 Academic Apartheid: American Indian Studies and �� Multiculturalism��""
- ""7 The Doorkeepers: Education and Internal Settler Colonialism, the Mexican Experience""""PART III: Gendered Subjectivities""; ""8 Negotiating Self-Defined Standpoints in Teaching and Learning""; ""9 Entre la Marquesina y la Cocina""; ""10 Deconstructing Mainstream Discourse Through Puerto Rican Women�s Oral Narratives""; ""PART IV: Curriculum, Canon, and Syllabi: Who�s Teaching What and How""; ""11 Education in Community: The Role of Multicultural Education""; ""12 Core Culture and Core Curriculum in South Africa""
- ""13 The Peer Review Group: Writing, Negotiation, and Metadiscourse in the English Classroom""""14 The Cultural Ethos of the Academy: Potentials and Perils for Multicultural Education Reform""; ""Index""; ""About the Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313004995
- 0313004994
- 9780585400778
- 0585400776
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