Multicultural Encounters

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.

' 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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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