ED372158 UD030001
Title: Race, Identity and Representation in Education.
Author(s): McCarthy, Cameron, Ed.; Crichlow, Warren, Ed.
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-415-90558-3
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ISBN-0-415-90558-3, $17.95; clothbound: ISBN-0-415-90557-5, $49.95).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1994
This book
presents 24 essays, written by scholars in the humanities and social
sciences, that offer cultural and poststructural appraisals of race.
The essays illustrate the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power
of work currently underway in the field. They attempt to intervene
in the increasingly acrimonious debate over racial inequality and
educational reform. Essays and their authors are as follows: "On
the Theoretical Concept of Race" (Michael Omi and Howard Winant);
"The New Cultural Politics of Difference" (Cornel West);
"Constructing the 'Other': Rightist Reconstructions of Common
Sense" (Michael W. Apple); "Traveling To Teach: Postcolonial
Critics in the American Academy" (Ali Behdad); "Racism,
Sexism, and Nation Building in Canada" (Roxana Ng); "Notes
on Understanding Curriculum as a Racial Text" (William F. Pinar);
"White is a Color! White Defensiveness, Postmodernism, and
Anti-Racist Pedagogy" (Leslie G. Roman); "Cultural Studies
and/in New Worlds" (Lawrence Grossberg); "Racialization
and Children" (Richard Hatcher and Barry Troyna); "Children
and the Grammar of Popular Racism" (Fazal Rizvi); "Negotiating
Work, Identity, and Desire: The Adolescent Dilemmas of Working-Class
Girls of French and Algerian Descent in a Vocational High School"
(Catherine Raissiguier); "How White Teachers Construct Race"
(Christine E. Sleeter); "Technologies of Marginality: Strategies
of Stardom and Displacement in Adolescent Life" (Glenn M. Hudak);
"Slips that Show and Tell: Fashioning Multiculture as a Problem
of Representation" (Deborah P. Britzman; And Others); "I
Pledge Allegiance: The Politics of Reading and Using Educational
Films" (Elizabeth Ellsworth); "Toni Morrison Teaching
the Interminable" (Susan Huddleston Edgerton); "Encoding
White Resentment: 'Grand Canyon'--A Narrative for Our Times"
(Hazel V. Carby); "Multiculturalism and Oppositionality"
(Michele Wallace); "Black Studies, Cultural Studies: Performative
Acts" (Manthia Diawara); "Opposition and the Education
of Chicana/os" (Laura Elisa Perez); "Decolonization and
the Curriculum of English" (Patrick McGee); "After the
Canon: Knowledge and Ideological Representation in the Multicultural
Discourse on Curriculum Reform" (Cameron McCarthy); and "The
Politics of Knowledge" (Edward Said). References follow essays.
Contains an index. (GLR)
Descriptors: *Adolescents; Black Studies; *Cultural Pluralism; Curriculum
Development; *Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education;
English Instruction; *Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Hispanic
Americans; *Racial Relations; Teacher Influence
Identifiers: Canada
