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Beyond a Dream Deferred : Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence.
Title:
Beyond a Dream Deferred : Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence.
Author:
Bell, Derrick.
ISBN:
9780816685158
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "A Wider Landscape . . . without the Mandate for Conquest" -- Part I: Moral and Political Visions of Multicultural Education -- 1. Rethinking America: The Practice and Politics of Multiculturalism in Higher Education -- 2. The New Cultural Politics of Difference -- 3. On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s -- 4. Clarence Thomas, Affirmative Action, and the Academy -- Part II: Multiple Voices, Ongoing Struggles -- 5. The Politics of Inclusion: Reskilling the Academy -- 6. Community Ties and Law School Faculty Hiring: The Case for Professors Who Don't Think White -- 7. The Responsibility of and to Differences: Theorizing Race and Ethnicity in Lesbian and Gay Studies -- 8. Compromising Positions -- Part III: New Directions for Critical Engagement -- 9. Education for a Change: The MOST Program -- 10. The Politics of Curricular Change: Establishing a Diversity Requirement at the University of Massachusetts at Boston -- 11. Quaking and Trembling: Institutional Change and Multicultural Curricular Development at the City University of New York -- 12. The Diversity of California at Berkeley: An Emerging Reformulation of "Competence" in an Increasingly Multicultural World -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
Abstract:
Beyond A Dream Deferred is a multidisciplinary work that consolidates progressive perspectives on multicultural education, establishing it as a crucial sphere in a society charged with reimagining its national identity in all its diversity. Drawing on the perspectives of faculty, administrators, and students-both activists and intellectuals-contributors include Margaret L. Andersen, Estelle Disch, Troy Duster, Lisa Kahaleole Chang Hall, Evelynn Hammonds, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Earl Jackson, Jr., Ian Haney López, Carole C. Marks, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Barbara Omolade, Becky W. Thompson, Sangeeta Tyagi, and Cornel West.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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