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The Uses of Culture Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)

The Uses of Culture By Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)

The Uses of Culture by Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)

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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.

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The Uses of Culture: Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation by Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)

The Uses of Culture , a collection of nine of Cameron McCarthy's most provocative essays, explores the issues of race, educational reform and cultural politics. This volume 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, McCarthy 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.

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Cameron McCarthy's The Uses of Culture: Education and theLimits of Ethnic Affiliation is a rigorously argued, brilliantly conceived and cogently written book about the politics of identity and identity of politics in contemporary education. McCarthy's book not only examines the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in theory, and in the classroom, but he provides as well incisive readings of popular texts against the backdrop of contentious cultural debates. The Uses of Culture is tour de force of educational and cultural studies! -- Michael Eric Dyson, Visiting Distinguished Professor of African-American Studies, Columbia University, and author of Race Rules: Navigatingthe Color Line
Cameron McCarthy's The Uses of Culture: Education and theLimits of Ethnic Affiliation is a rigorously argued, brilliantly conceived and cogently written book about the politics of identity and identity of politics in contemporary education. McCarthy's book not only examines the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in theory, and in the classroom, but he provides as well incisive readings of popular texts against the backdrop of contentious cultural debates. The Uses of Culture is tour de force of educational and cultural studies! -- Michael Eric Dyson, Visiting Distinguished Professor of African-American Studies, Columbia University, and author of Race Rules: Navigatingthe Color Line

About Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)

Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-editor of Race,Identity and Representation (Routledge, 1993) and author of Race and Curriculum (1990).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. English Rustics in Black Skin: Cultural Hybridity and Racial Identity at the End of the Century Chapter 2.The Postcolonial Exemplar: Wilson Harris and the Curriculum in Troubled TimesChapter 3.Hooray for Those Who Never Created Anything: Popular Culture and the Third World in the Sociology of EducationChapter 4.Contradictions of Experience: Race, Power, and Inequality in SchoolingChapter 5.Reading the American Popular: Suburban Resentment and the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and TelevisionChapter 6.After the Content Debate: Multicultural Education, Minority Identities, Textbooks, and the Challenge of Curriculum ReformChapter 7.The Last Rational Men: Citizenship, Morality, and the Pursuit of Human PerfectionChapter 8.The Devil Finds Work: Re-reading Race and Identity in Contemporary LifeChapter 9.The Uses of Culture

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NLS9780415913003
9780415913003
0415913004
The Uses of Culture: Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation by Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)
Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)
Critical Social Thought
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1997-12-17
192
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