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How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture - nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self-interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and the promising potential of our own cultural roots. This book offers a theory and practice of transformation that shows, especially through literature, education, and politics, how we can create a multicultural society that liberates our being as a fulfillment of the story of democracy. Perhaps for the first time in American history we are seeing the personal, political, historical, and sacred faces of women, people of color, and all ethnic groups as they tell their stories. It is this emerging scholarship that constitutes the new multicultural and feminine face of the story of democracy.
List of contents
Introduction
Setting the Context: A Theory of Transformation
Applying the Story of Transformation to Practice: Images of the Sacred and the Political in Literature
The Four Faces of Our Being in Multicultural and Women's Scholarship
The Relationship between Multicultural Scholarship and the Feminine as the Principle of Liberation and Transformation
Teaching and Practicing Multicultural Education from the Perspective of Transformational Politics
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the author
DAVID T. ABALOS is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Seton Hall University. He has lectured and written extensively on multicultural and gender scholarship and also on Latinas and Latinos in the United States from the perspective of the politics of transformation. He is the author of
Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political (1986),
The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation, a
Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1994 (Praeger, 1993) and
Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy (Praeger, 1996).
