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Decentering Whiteness: In Search of a Revolutionary Multiculturalism

The present focus on diversity in multicultural education is often misguided because the struggle for ethnic diversity makes progressive political sense only if it can be accompanied by a sustained analysis of the cultural logics of white supremacy. A real revolutionary multiculturalism must consider the construction of subjectivities within relations of power and privilege linked to capitalism. (SLD)

• Author/Creator: McLaren, Peter
• Date Published: Fall
• Journal/Secondary Title: Multicultural Education
• Number: 1
• Volume: 5
• Year: 1997

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Culture Conflict
• Subject: Diversity (Student)
• Subject: Elementary Secondary Education
• Subject: Ethnicity
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Politics
• Subject: Power Structure
• Subject: Urban Schools
• Subject: Whites

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