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Theorizing Multiculturalism : a guide to the current debate / edited by Cynthia Willett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass ; Oxford : Blackwell, 1998. Description: xi, 466p. ; 24cmISBN:
  • 0631203427
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 WIL
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 306 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000352295

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly-commissioned essays brings together the major theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I Post-Hegelian Dialectics of Recognition and Communication
  • From Redistribution to Recogntion? Dilemmas of Justice in a "Post-Socialist" Age (Nancy Fraser)
  • Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser's Dual Systems Theory (Iris Marion Young)
  • A Rejoinder to Iris Young (Nancy Fraser)
  • Recognition, Value, and Equality: A Critique of Charles Taylor's and Nancy Fraser's Accounts of Multiculturalism (Lawrence Blum)
  • Ludic, Corporate, and Imperial Multiculturalism of the New World Order (Martin J. Beck Matustik)
  • II Post-Marxism and Issues of Class.Multiculturalism: Consumerist or Transformational? (Bill Martin)
  • Post-Marxist Political Economy and the Culture of the Left (Donald C. Hodges)
  • III Continental and Analytical Feminism
  • Identity, Difference, and Abjection (Kelly Oliver)
  • Psychological Explanations of Oppression (Ann E. Cudd)
  • IV Corporeal Logic and Sexuate Being
  • Toward the Domain of Freedom: Interview with Drucilla Cornell by Penny Florence (Drucilla Cornell)
  • Morphing the Body: Irigaray and Butler on Sexual Difference (Tamsin Lorraine)
  • V Critical Race Theory
  • Alienation and the African-American Experience (Howard McGary)
  • "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again": Interculturalism and Conversation of Races (RobertBernasconi)
  • VI Postcolonialism and Ethnicity
  • Fanon and the Subject of Experience (Ronald A. T. Judy)
  • White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of US Higher Education (Ward Churchill)
  • VII Liberalism
  • Moral Deference (Laurence M. Thomas)
  • "Multiculturalism," Citizenship, Education, and American Liberal Democracy (Lucius Outlaw, Jr.)
  • VIII Pragmatism
  • Ceremony and Rationality in the Haudenosaunee Tradition (Scott L. Pratt)
  • Educational Multiculturalism, Critical Pluralism, and Deep Democracy (Judith M. Green)
  • Universal Human Liberation: Community and Multiculturalism (Leonard Harris)
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

The editor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. She teaches courses in ethics, social theory, and contemporary Continental philosophy. Her previous publications include articles in Cultural Critique, Philosophy and Literature , and Research in Phenomenology . She has also published a book, Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (1995).

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