The uses of culture : education and the limits of ethnic affiliation
- Title
- The uses of culture : education and the limits of ethnic affiliation / Cameron McCarthy.
- Published by
- New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 180 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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 variety of literatures as well as popular culture, the author contends that any single ruling identity at the core of a curriculum will be restricting. He offers as a solution a curriculum reform based on the complex, cultural linkages and associations that exist among all human groups, which acknowledge their many sources of knowledge.
- Series statement
- Critical social thought
- Uniform title
- Critical social thought
- Subject
- Educational sociology
- Culture
- Ethnicity
- Race awareness
- Multicultural education
- Popular culture
- Popular Culture
- Culture
- ethnicity
- popular culture
- culture note
- culture (concept)
- Educational sociology
- Ethnicity
- Multicultural education
- Popular culture
- Race awareness
- Interkulturelle Erziehung
- Ethnische Identität
- Pädagogische Soziologie
- Schule
- Onderwijs
- Etnisch bewustzijn
- Intercultureel onderwijs
- USA
- Contents
- Ch. l. 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index.