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This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of contemporary media and film. For students and scholars committed to a critical practice for transforming the politics of representation and otherness.Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: EDUCATING IDENTITY Introduction: What's Wrong with Multiculturalism? Borders, Agency and Otherness Teaching Difference: Representation and Rhizomes PART 2: MULTICULTURAL PRAXIS Reading Racial Crisis Critical Practice: 'Minor-Popular' Film Diaspora Pedagogy: Working with British-Asian film Epilogue: the Problem with Pedagogy Notes Bibliography Index
' Multicultural Encounters provides a unique insight into the complexities of teaching a multicultural curriculum in today's university. Sanjay Sharma's book is a crucial resource for all those who aspire to a theoretically informed but practically achievable anti-racist pedagogy.' - Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths College University, UK
SANJAY SHARMA teaches at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. He has published in the areas of multiculturalism, anti-racism, diaspora youth cultures and is the co-editor of Dis-Orienting Rhythms: Politics of Asian Dance Music.Copyright © 2018 - 2024 ShopSpell