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Beyond Comfort Zones in Multiculturalism CriticalStudiesinEducationandCultureSeries EducationStillunderSiege:SecondEdition StanleyAronowitzandHenryA.Giroux MediaEducationandthe(Re)ProductionofCulture DavidSholleandStanDenski CriticalPedagogy:AnIntroduction BarryKanpol ComingOutinCollege:TheStruggleforaQueerIdentity RobertA.Rhoads EducationandthePostmodernCondition MichaelPeters,editor CriticalMulticulturalism:UncommonVoicesinaCommonStruggle BarryKanpolandPeterMcLaren,editors BeyondLiberationandExcellence:ReconstructingthePublicDiscourseonEducation DavidE.PurpelandSviShapiro Schoolingina‘‘TotalInstitution’’:CriticalPerspectivesonPrisonEducation HowardS.Davidson,editor Simulation,Spectacle,andtheIroniesofEducationReform GuySenesewithRalphPage RepositioningFeminismandEducation:PerspectivesonEducatingforSocialChange JaniceJipson,PetraMunro,SusanVictor,KarenFroudeJones,and GretchenFreed-Rowland Culture,Politics,andIrishSchoolDropouts:ConstructingPoliticalIdentities G.HonorFagan Anti-Racism,Feminism,andCriticalApproachestoEducation RoxanaNg,PatStaton,andJoyceScane Beyond Comfort Zones in Multiculturalism CONFRONTING THE POLITICS OF PRIVILEGE Edited by Sandra Jackson and Jose´ Sol´ıs CriticalStudiesinEducationandCultureSeries EditedbyHenryA.GirouxandPauloFreire BERGIN&GARVEY Westport,Connecticut • London LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Beyondcomfortzonesinmulticulturalism : confrontingthepoliticsof privilege / editedbySandraJacksonandJose´ Solı´s. p. cm. — (Criticalstudiesineducationandcultureseries, ISSN1064–8615) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0–89789–415–4(alk.paper) 1. Multiculturaleducation—UnitedStates. 2. Multiculturalism— UnitedStates. I. Jackson,Sandra. II. Sol´ıs,Jose´. III. Series. LC1099.3.B494 1995 370.19'6—dc20 95–6950 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataisavailable. Copyright(cid:2)1995bySandraJacksonandJose´ Solı´s Allrightsreserved.Noportionofthisbookmaybe reproduced,byanyprocessortechnique,without theexpresswrittenconsentofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:95–6950 ISBN:0–89789–415–4 ISSN:1064–8615 Firstpublishedin1995 Bergin&Garvey,88PostRoadWest,Westport,CT06881 AnimprintofGreenwoodPublishingGroup,Inc. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica TM Thepaperusedinthisbookcomplieswiththe PermanentPaperStandardissuedbytheNational InformationStandardsOrganization(Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Thisbookisdedicatedtothose whoseinsistenceupontheirliberation givesmeaningtotheprincipleof educatingforfreedom. Contents Acknowledgments ix SeriesForewordbyHenryA.Giroux xi 1 Introduction:ResistingZonesofComfortin Multiculturalism 1 SandraJacksonandJose´ Sol´ıs PartI FROMITOWE:SELF-DETERMINATIONANDTHE MULTICULTURAL 2 WhiteStudies:TheIntellectualImperialismofU.S. HigherEducation 17 WardChurchill 3 Multiculturalism:WarinAmericaContinues 37 ImariAbubakariObadele 4 NuestraRealidad:HistoricalRootsofOurLatinoIdentity 53 Fe´lixMasud-Piloto viii Contents PartII RACISM:WHITESKINPRIVILEGE 5 ThePoliticsofCulture:MulticulturalEducationAfterthe ContentDebate 67 CameronMcCarthyandArletteIngramWillis 6 AcademicApartheid:AmericanIndianStudiesand ‘‘Multiculturalism’’ 89 MarieAnnetteJaimes*Guerrero 7 TheDoorkeepers:EducationandInternalSettler Colonialism,theMexicanExperience 113 PriscillaLujanFalco´n PartIII GENDEREDSUBJECTIVITIES 8 NegotiatingSelf-DefinedStandpointsinTeachingand Learning 129 SandraJackson 9 EntrelaMarquesinaylaCocina 149 Jose´ Solı´s 10 DeconstructingMainstreamDiscourseThroughPuerto RicanWomen’sOralNarratives 171 LourdesTorres PartIV CURRICULUM,CANON,ANDSYLLABI:WHO’S TEACHINGWHATANDHOW 11 EducationinCommunity:TheRoleofMulticultural Education 195 TerenceO’Connor 12 CoreCultureandCoreCurriculuminSouthAfrica 209 NevilleAlexander 13 ThePeerReviewGroup:Writing,Negotiation,and MetadiscourseintheEnglishClassroom 227 LindaWilliamsonNelson 14 TheCulturalEthosoftheAcademy:PotentialsandPerils forMulticulturalEducationReform 239 GenevaGayandWandaFox Index 257 AbouttheContributors 267 Acknowledgments Thisbookistheresultofmuchdirectandindirecteffortbymanypeoplewhose support was given for its development and production. The idea for the book arose from our concern with the persistence of land based issues characterizing therealitiesofcertaingroupsofpeopleofcolorandtheimpactthatthisissuehas fortheirunderstandingofmulticulturalism. Within this context, we would like to extend our sincerest and heartfelt ap- preciation for the voices of the contributors who, despite their heavy schedules and other assignments, offer us in these pages eloquent chapters and serious challenges for usall.Theseauthorshavecommittedtheirlivestostrugglingand educatinginanefforttocontributetotheliberationoftheirpeoplesandland. Ineditingthisbook,communicationwithmanypeopleinmanyplacesbecame a formidable task for us. This burden was lightened thanks to the secretarial support offered by Lisa Silverman and Lisa McDonald at DePaul University’s School of Education. On the production side of publication, we would like to express our gratitude to Mervin Me´ndez and Marı´a Va´zquez for their help in reading and putting the text into shape; to Tom Roser of DePaul University’s LA&S Computer Skills Center; to the University Research Council at DePaul University for granting us support so that we could finalize the work; and to DavidPellaur,chairofthePhilosophyDepartmentatDePaulforuseofhisscan- ner.WewouldespeciallyliketothankoureditorLynnFlintandourproduction manager Katie Chase at Greenwood Publishing Group for their support and in- valuableassistanceinpreparingthemanuscriptforpublication. x Acknowledgments For us it is with the utmost respect and hope that the book achieves broad appeal and educational value that we extend our appreciation to Henry Giroux andPauloFreireforincludingitintheirseriesatBergin&Garvey. Finally, we would like to recognize the endless hours of support given to the project by our spouses, Fassile Demise and Martha Gonza´lez. They were both reaffirmingandcriticalinhelpingusforgethecharacterofthebook.
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