Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Spring 1999   http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme   Vol. 1, No. 2 Theme: Understanding One's Own Culture Through Cultural Narration

 

This section is added from this issue.  It is created to include writings beyond the scope of the issue theme, yet that deals with salient issues of multicultural education. 

Vision, Privilege and the Limits of Tolerence

Cris Cullinan

Three presumptions about the dominant culture--innocence, worthiness and competence--perpetuate privileges for this cultural group, which often go unnoticed by members of the culture.  This article provides a list of rules that the author uses to combat the white privileges. 

 

Is Culture in The Individual or
The Individual in Culture?

James Mullooly

In "Re-examining the Rhetoric of the "Cultural Border" Chang (1999) focuses on the individual as a way of liberating us from an essentialist view of cultures. This paper argues that a "social" rather than "individual" approach to multiculturalism has more explanatory power. Through a discussion of Saussure’s structuralism and Bakhtin’s heteroglossia, the author illustrates modifications to Chang’s constructivist description of multiculturalism that would make it more applicable to a social and an individual understanding of others.

 

 

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