Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies Of Dissent For The New Millennium

by Mclaren,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780813325712
• ISBN10: 0813325714
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work by one of North America's leading educational theorists and cultural critics culminates a decade of social analyses that focuses on the political economy of schooling, Paulo Freire and literacy education, hip-hop culture, and multicultural education. Peter McLaren also examines the work of Baudrillard as well as Bourdieu's reflexive sociology.Always in McLaren's work is a profound understanding of the relationship among advanced capitalism, the politics of knowledge, and the formation of identity. One of the central themes of this volume is the relationship between the political and the pedagogical for educators, activists, artists, and other cultural workers. McLaren argues that the central project ahead in the struggle for social justice is not so much the politics of diversity as the global decentering and dismantling of whiteness. This volume also contains an interview with the author.

Author Biography

Peter McLaren is professor of education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. His development of a revolutionary politics of liberation has taken him throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, where he is frequently invited to discuss his work. He has written numerous books, articles, and monographs on critical pedagogy, cultural studies, and race relations. His writings have appeared in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Polish, Hebrew, and Japanese.

Table of Contents

Responde Tú . .	p. vi
Foreword	p. ix
Series Editors' Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Fashioning Los Olvidados In the Age of Cynical Reason	p. 1
Notes	p. 14
Writing from the Margins: Geographies of Identity, Pedagogy, and Power	p. 16
References	p. 40
Liberatory Politics And Higher Education: A Freirean Perspective	p. 42
Notes	p. 73
The Ethnographer as Postmodern Flâneur: Critical Reflexivity and Posthybridity as Narrative Engagement	p. 76
Notes	p. 112
Jean Baudrillard's Chamber of Horrors: from Marxism to Terrorist Pedagogy	p. 114
Notes	p. 147
References	p. 147
Gangsta Pedagogy and Ghettocentricity: The Hip-Hop Nation as Counterpublic Sphere	p. 150
Epilogue	p. 185
Global Politics and Local Antagonisms: Research and Practice as Dissent and Possibility	p. 192
Notes	p. 219
Visional Utopias in a Postcolonial World: An Interview with Peter Mclaren	p. 223
Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia	p. 237
References	p. 290
Epilogue--Beyond the Threshold of Liberal Pluralism: Toward a Revolutionary Democracy	p. 294
References	p. 301
Afterword---Multiculturalism: The Fracturing of Cultural Souls	p. 302
Notes	p. 304
Credits	p. 305
About the Book and Author	p. 306
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