Research Catalog

Title

Multicultural encounters / Sanjay Sharma.

Author

Sharma, Sanjay, 1967-

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Details

Description

xix, 224 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "In the globalizing world, we are being compelled to confront questions of multiculturalism: What happens when 'other cultures' are encountered in everyday media? How do we teach diversity? Can pedagogies of a globalizing culture be ethical in representing the difference of others? Sanjay Sharma interrogates the hegemony of multiculturalism that too easily celebrates the diversity of 'others', while foreclosing the power of whiteness in shaping everyday life. Through an innovative analysis of popular North American, European and South Asian diasporic cinemas, ranging from The Matrix to Bend it Like Beckham, Multicultural Encounters examines the im/possibility of engaging the 'other' outside of its domination.
• Informed by contemporary social theory as well as an acute grasp of popular culture, this book aims to offer a radical cultural and media studies practice by weaving together questions of representation, otherness and the ethical."--Jacket.

Subject

• Multiculturalism
• Multicultural education
• multiculturalism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.

Contents

Part I: Educating identity -- 1. Introduction: what's wrong with multiculturalism? -- 2. Borders, agency and otherness -- 3. Teaching difference: representations and rhizomes -- Part II: Multicultural praxis -- 4. Reading racial crisis -- 5. Critical practice: 'Minor-popular' film -- 6. Diaspora pedagogy: working with British-Asian film -- Epilogue: The problem with pedagogy.

ISBN

• 9781403935564
• 1403935564

LCCN

• 2006045714
• 9781403935564

OCLC

• ocm67405715
• 67405715
• SCSB-8806715

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library