ABSTRACT
The Uses of Culture , a collection of nine of Cameron McCarthy's most provocative essays, explores the issues of race, educational reform and cultural politics. This volume looks at the limitations of the cultural exceptionalism which underwrite current curriculum projects such as Afrocentrism, Multiculturalism and Eurocentrism.
Drawing upon a variety of literatures as well as popular culture, McCarthy contends that any single ruling identity at the core of a curriculum will be restricting. He offers as a solution a curriculum reform based on the complex, cultural linkages and associations that exist among all human groups, which acknowledge their many sources of knowledge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|20 pages
English Rustics in Black Skin
Cultural Hybridity and Racial Identity at the End of the Century
chapter 3|14 pages
Hooray for Those Who Never Created Anything
Popular Culture and the Third World in the Sociology of Education
chapter 5|26 pages
Reading the American Popular
Suburban Resentment and the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and Television
chapter 6|14 pages
After the Content Debate
Multicultural Education, Minority Identities, Textbooks, and the Challenge of Curriculum Reform
