Multiculturalism A Critical Reader

by Goldberg, David Theo

• ISBN13: 9780631189121
• ISBN10: 0631189122
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of "multiculturalism".

Author Biography

David Theo Goldberg teaches in the School of Justice Studies of Arizona State University. His Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993) is also available from Blackwell Publishers.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Multicultural Conditions	1	(44)
David Theo Goldberg
Part I: Thinking the Unthinkable: Setting Agendas
White Terror and Oppositional Agency: Towards a Critical Multiculturalism	45	(30)
Peter McLaren
The Politics of Recognition	75	(32)
Charles Taylor
Introduction to ``Critical Multiculturalism''	107	(7)
Lauren Berlant
Michael Warner
Critical Multiculturalism	114	(26)
Chicago Cultural Studies Group
Diversity's Diversity	140	(17)
Judith Stiehm
Ethnic Studies: Its Evolution in American Colleges and Universities	157	(11)
Ramon A. Gutierrez
Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the Academy?	168	(12)
Barbara Christian
On Being a Role Model	180	(23)
Anita L. Allen
Part II: Breaking the Bounds of Disciplines
Goodbye, Columbus? Notes on the Culture of Criticism	203	(15)
Henry Louis Gates Jr
Essentialism and the Complexities of Racial Identity	218	(12)
Michael Eric Dyson
Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice	230	(29)
Tommy L. Lott
The Search for the ``Good Enough'' Mammy: Multiculturalism, Popular Culture, and Psychoanalysis	259	(10)
Michele Wallace
``Chicana! Rican? No, Chicana-Riquena!'' Refashioning the Transnational Connection	269	(27)
Angie Chabram Dernersesian
Contested Histories: Eurocentrism, Multiculturalism, and the Media	296	(29)
Robert Stam
Ella Shohat
Insurgent Multiculturalism and the Promise of Pedagogy	325	(19)
Henry E. Giroux
Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities, Uncertainties	344	(27)
Sandra Harding
Identity: Cultural, Transcultural, and Multicultural	371	(17)
Peter Caws
Ota Benga's Flight Through Geronimo's Eyes: Tales of Science and Multiculturalism	388	(18)
Cedric Robinson
Anthropology and Multiculturalism: What Is Anthropology that Multiculturalists Should Be Mindful of It?	406	(20)
Terence Turner
List of Contributors	426	(3)
Selected Bibliography	429	(13)
Index	442