Cameron Mccarthy

The Uses of Culture

Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Uses of Culture," a collection of nine of Cameron McCarthy's most provocative essays, explores the issues of race, educational reform and cultural politics. This volume looks at the limitations of the cultural exceptionalism which underwrite current curriculum projects such as Afrocentrism, Multiculturalism and Eurocentrism. Drawing upon a variety of literatures as well as popular culture, McCarthy contends that any single ruling identity at the core of a curriculum will be restricting. He offers as a solution a curriculum reform based on the complex, cultural linkages and associations that exist among all human groups, which acknowledge their many sources of knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415913003
• ISBN-10: 0415913004
• Artikelnr.: 21508476

Autorenporträt

Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-editor of Race,Identity and Representation (Routledge, 1993) and author of Race and Curriculum (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. English Rustics in Black Skin: Cultural Hybridity and Racial
Identity at the End of the Century Chapter 2.The Postcolonial Exemplar:
Wilson Harris and the Curriculum in Troubled TimesChapter 3.Hooray for
Those Who Never Created Anything: Popular Culture and the Third World in
the Sociology of EducationChapter 4.Contradictions of Experience: Race,
Power, and Inequality in SchoolingChapter 5.Reading the American Popular:
Suburban Resentment and the Representation of the Inner City in
Contemporary Film and TelevisionChapter 6.After the Content Debate:
Multicultural Education, Minority Identities, Textbooks, and the Challenge
of Curriculum ReformChapter 7.The Last Rational Men: Citizenship, Morality,
and the Pursuit of Human PerfectionChapter 8.The Devil Finds Work:
Re-reading Race and Identity in Contemporary LifeChapter 9.The Uses of
Culture