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Multicultural Encounters

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  • © 2006

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  1. Sanjay Sharma
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Educating Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: What’s Wrong with Multiculturalism?

      • Sanjay Sharma
      Pages 3-21

    3. Borders, Agency and Otherness

      • Sanjay Sharma
      Pages 22-47

    4. Teaching Difference: Representations and Rhizomes

      • Sanjay Sharma
      Pages 48-75

  3. Multicultural Praxis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Reading Racial Crisis

      • Sanjay Sharma
      Pages 79-111

    3. Critical Practice: ‘Minor-Popular’ Film

      • Sanjay Sharma
      Pages 112-138

    4. Diaspora Pedagogy: Working with British-Asian Film

      • Sanjay Sharma
      Pages 139-188

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 193-224
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About this book

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.

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' 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

About the author

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.

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