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Understanding Curriculum as Racial Text

Representations of Identity and Difference in Education

edited by Louis A. Castenell Jr. & William F. Pinar

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1993
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780791416617
    Publish Date
    Sep 1993
    List Price
    $128.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780791416624
    Publish Date
    Sep 1993
    List Price
    $48.95

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This book examines issues of identity and difference, both theoretically and as represented in curriculum materials. Here debates over the cultural character of the curriculum are characterized as debates over the American national identity. The editors argue that historically, cultural conservatives have failed to appreciate that the United States is, in a fundamental and central way, an African and African-American place. European Americans are, in a cultural sense, also black, and the failure to teach sequestered suburban (usually Caucasian) students about their (cultural) African and African-American heritage perpetuates their delusion regarding their deeper identities. A curriculum which reflects the non-synchronous identity of Americans is sketched in the last section. Such a curriculum involves not only the inclusion of African and African-American content, but interracial intellectual marriage as well.

Contributors to this book include Peter Taubman, Susan Edgerton, Beverly Gordon, Alma Young, Wendy Luttrell, Cameron McCarthy, Patricia Collins, Roger Collins, Brenda Hatfield, Marianne H. Whatley, and Joe L. Kincheloe.

About the authors

Louis A. Castenell Jr.'s profile page

Dr. William F. Pinar is the director of the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Pinar is the founding editor of the scholarly Journal of Curriculum Theorizing as well as the founder and past president of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies.

William F. Pinar's profile page

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