Full Description
This work by one of North America's leading educational theorists and cultural critics culminates a decade of social analyses that focuses on the political economy of schooling, Paulo Freire and literacy education, hip-hop culture, and multicultural education. Peter McLaren also examines the work of Baudrillard as well as Bourdieu's reflexive socio
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
