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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • Author:  Sharma, S.
  • Author:  Sharma, S.
  • ISBN-10:  1349517968
  • ISBN-10:  1349517968
  • ISBN-13:  9781349517961
  • ISBN-13:  9781349517961
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Pages:  224
  • Pages:  224
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2006
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2006
  • SKU:  1349517968-11-SPRI
  • SKU:  1349517968-11-SPRI
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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.

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