ABSTRACT
In each chapter of this first part of the book, multiple cultures come to confront each other. Eileen Parsons tells the story of two African American women who, in different ways, come to face science, which is by and large the cultural achievement of white male middle-class scholars-Jacques Derrida coined the term phal-logo-centrism to denote this male-dominated dimension and cultural heritage of scientific thought and process rooted in the Greek idea of logos. Carol Brandt grounds her chapter in her experiences of agricultural practices within a Midwestern German-American community that come to be confronted with the farming practices at Zuni Pueblo. SungWon Hwang and I use the experience of immigrating to Canada and studying in a language that was not our own to think about a double confrontation of culture/language, on the one hand, and of everyday understanding and science, on the other hand. Chris Emdin focuses on hip hop, a culture within a culture that comes to be confronted with another facet of the same but nevertheless different culture, the dominant Anglo-Saxon, white culture characteristic of schools and science. Finally, in Katherine Richardson Bruna and Hannah Lewis’s chapter we find Mexican immigrants, who bring a lot of manual farming experiences and practices with them into their new (temporary) homeland, confronted with industrialization and deskilling.
