Reflections on Multiculturalism

by Eddy, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781877864452
• ISBN10: 1877864455
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Intercultural Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Politics of Multiculturalism and Education's Ultimate Demographic Challenge	ix
Lloyd V. Hackley
Acknowledgements	xix
Introduction	1	(16)
Robert Eddy
I Theories and Issues in Multiculturalism
Getting It: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Understanding	17	(30)
Dennis Fischman
Metaphor, Language, Games, Cultures	47	(16)
Eric Hyman
Shattered Images: From Consensus to Contention in Classic American Film	63	(16)
Sam B. Girgus
Literacy, Culture, and the Colonial Legacy	79	(22)
Victor Villanueva, Jr
The Mulatto in American Literture	101	(16)
W. Maurice Shipley
II Multicultural Dialogicalim: Personal Examples
Representing and Negotiating Differences in the Contact Zone	117	(16)
Min-Zhan Lu
The Accidental Culture: Disability and the Enduring Need for Closure	133	(22)
James A. Helten
No Sentimental Education: An Essay on Transatlantic Cultural Identity	155	(10)
Thomas Austenfeld
Chinese in America or Chinese-Americans: Building Multicultural Landscapes and Literacies	165	(12)
An Lan Jang
The ``Other'' before Me: A Bicultural Dialogue	177	(14)
Solange de Azambuja Lira
Arnold Gordenstein
Afterword: The Complex Dynamics of Multiculturalism	191	(20)
Robert Eddy
Contributors	211