Progressive multiculturalism does not aim to replace one canon with another
Evidence
These historical examples are not irrelevant to how multiculturalism has surfaced in the postwar world. They provide some of the latter’s conditions of emergence. But there is no linear connection between the colonial and the postcolonial. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 313 (
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This kind of tokenism is not multicultural transformation, but it is familiar to us as the change individuals are most likely to make. Let me give another example. What does it mean when a white female English professor is eager to include a work by Toni Morrison on the syllabus of her course but then teaches that work without ever making reference to race or ethnicity? I have heard individual white women “boast” about how they have shown students that black writers are “as good ” as the white male canon when they do not call attention to race. Clearly, such pedagogy is not an interrogation of the biases conventional canons (if not all canons) establish, but yet an other form of tokenism. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 85 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colorblind inclusion of Black authors is a covert form of tokenism — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 85; Postcolonial multiculturalism has no linear causal link to its colonial past — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 313; Postwar multiculturalism changed form with no linear colonial connection
Broader Connections
- Postcolonial multiculturalism has no linear causal link to its colonial past
#expands(0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 313 - Postwar multiculturalism changed form with no linear colonial connection
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