The uses of culture : education and the limits of ethnic affiliation /

Collates nine of the author's essays which explore the issues of race, educational reform and cultural politics. The book looks at the limitations of the cultural exceptionalism which underwrite current curriculum projects such as Afrocentrism, multiculturalism and Eurocentrism. Drawing upon a...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Cameron
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1998
Series:Critical social thought
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505 0 |a Ch. 1. English rustics in black skin : cultural hybridity and racial identity at the end of the century -- ch. 2. The postcolonial exemplar : Wilson Harris and the curriculum in troubled times -- ch. 3. Hooray for those who never created anything : popular culture and the third world in the sociology of education -- ch. 4. Contradictions of experience : race, power, and inequality in schooling -- ch. 5. Reading the American popular : suburban resentment and the representation of the inner city in contemporary film and television -- ch. 6. After the content debate : multicultural education, minority identities, textbooks, and the challenge of curriculum reform -- ch. 7. The last rational men : citizenship, morality, and the pursuit of human perfection -- ch. 8. The devil finds work : re-reading race and identity in contemporary life -- ch. 9. The uses of culture 
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