Sandra Jackson, Jose Solis

Beyond Comfort Zones in Multiculturalism (eBook, PDF)

Confronting the Politics of Privilege

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313004995
• Artikelnr.: 68529112

Autorenporträt

SANDRA JACKSON is an Assistant Professor of Education at De Paul University in Chicago.

JOSE SOLIS is an Assistant Professor of Education at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author of Public School Reform in Puerto Rico: Sustaining Colonial Models of Development (Praeger, 1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Series Foreword by Henry A. Giroux Introduction: Resisting
Zones of Comfort in Multiculturalism by Sandra Jackson and José Solís 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 Félix
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 Falcón Gendered Subjectivities Negotiating Self-Defined
Standpoints in Teaching and Learning by Sandra Jackson Entre la Marquesina
y la Cocina by José Solís 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