ABSTRACT
The essays in this collection address questions raised by a modernity that has become global with the victory of capitalism over its competitors in the late twentieth century. Rather than erase difference by converting all to European-American norms of modernity, capitalist modernity as it has gone global has empowered societies once condemned to imprisonment in premodernity or tradition to make their own claims on modernity, on the basis of those very traditions, as filtered through experiences of colonialism, neocolonialism, or simple marginalization by the forces of globalization. Global modernity appears presently not as global homogeneity, but as a site of conflict between forces of homogenization and heterogenization within and between nations. Prominent in this context are conflicts over different ways of knowing and organizing the world. The essays here, dealing for the most part with education in the United States, engage in critiques of hegemonic ways of knowing and critically evaluate counterhegemonic voices for change that are heard from a broad spectrum of social, ethnic, and indigenous perspectives. Crucial to the essays' critique of hegemony in contemporary pedagogy is an effort shared by the contributors, distinguished scholars in their various fields, to overcome area and/or disciplinary boundaries and take the wholeness of everyday life as their point of departure.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |85 pages
Perspectives on Pedagogy
chapter |40 pages
Who Will Educate the Educators?
chapter |17 pages
Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neoliberalism
part |75 pages
Our Ways of Knowing
chapter |23 pages
Anthropology, History, and Aboriginal Rights
chapter |19 pages
Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Prison-Industrial Complex
chapter |8 pages
The Drug War Is the New Jim Crow
part |109 pages
Counterknowledges
chapter |21 pages
Agreement Place Boundaries versus Separatist Borders and the Essential versus Essentialism
chapter |30 pages
“Strategic Parochialism” and the Politics of Speaking Contexts
chapter |16 pages
Why Spend a Lot of Time Dwelling on the Past?
chapter |17 pages
California Colonial Histories
part |39 pages
Education for Community