Multiculturalism backlash aims to stop epistemology from being questioned in class
Evidence
That is threatening. That’s why the critique of multiculturalism seeks to shut the classroom down again— to halt this revolution in how we know what we know. It’s as though many people know that the focus on difference has the potential to revolutionize the classroom and they do not want the revolution to take place. There is a major backlash that seeks to delegitimize progressive pedagogy by saying, “This keeps us from having serious thoughts and serious education.” — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 272
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to bell hooks’ broader argument about how ‘serious education’ rhetoric masks fear of intellectual revolution. — connects to: Multiculturalism disturbs the settled liberal-communitarian debate — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 356; Multiculturalism’s concept of culture was impoverished and innocent of class — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 894; Dismissing multiculturalism as political betrays that monoculture is political too — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 230 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Multiculturalism’s concept of culture was impoverished and innocent of class
#complicates(0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 894 - Multicultural tolerance can mask racism as respect for culture
#expands(0.81) - Dismissing multiculturalism as political betrays that monoculture is political too
#expands(0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 230 - Multiculturalism reduces difference to exotic spectacle while evading racism
#qualifies(0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 245 - School instills state-centered worldview to displace folkloristic traditional conceptions
#exemplifies(0.79) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 339 - Multiculturalism disturbs the settled liberal-communitarian debate
#expands(0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 356 - European multiculturalism backlash revitalized anti-Muslim racism as cultural racism
#exemplifies(0.77) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 313 - Multiculturalism critiques often function as thinly veiled attacks on Muslim identity
#exemplifies(0.76) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 577 - Perceived Muslim rejection of secularism eroded European faith in multiculturalism
#exemplifies(0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 359 - Cultural critique gains meaning when performed as direct response to students
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