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This book examines the work of Jean Baudrillard as well as Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. It argues that the central project ahead in the struggle for social justice is not so much the politics of diversity as the global decentering and dismantling of whiteness.
List of contents
Introduction: Fashioning Los Olvidados in the Age of Cynical Reason -- Writing from the Margins: Geographies of Identity, Pedagogy, and Power -- Liberatory Politics and Higher Education: A Freirean Perspective -- The Ethnographer as Postmodern Flaneur: Critical Reflexivity and Posthybridity as Narrative Engagement -- Jean Baudrillard's Chamber of Horrors: From Marxism to Terrorist Pedagogy -- Gangsta Pedagogy and Ghettocentricity: The Hip-Hop Nation as Counterpublic Sphere -- Global Politics and Local Antagonisms: Research and Practice as Dissent and Possibility -- Provisional Utopias in a Postcolonial World: An Interview with Peter McLaren -- Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia -- Epilogue-Beyond the Threshold of Liberal Pluralism: Toward a Revolutionary Democracy -- Afterword-Multiculturalism: The Fracturing of Cultural Souls
About the author
Peter McLaren is professor of education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. His development of a revolutionary politics of liberation has taken him throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, where he is frequently invited to discuss his work. He has written numerous books, articles, and monographs on critical pedagogy, cultural studies, and race relations. His writings have appeared in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Polish, Hebrew, and Japanese.
Summary
This book examines the work of Jean Baudrillard as well as Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. It argues that the central project ahead in the struggle for social justice is not so much the politics of diversity as the global decentering and dismantling of whiteness.
