Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Making Multiculturalism by Bethany Bryson Bryson deconstructs the "canon wars" and uses English departments to demonstrate that social structure is the cornerstone of culture and the appropriate target for cultural policy. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Multiculturalism was a hot issue on college campuses in the 1990s, and it was a confusing issue, especially for English professors. Making Multiculturalism ventures into four college English departments to explore how professors made sense of multiculturalism. Their answers provide important insights into the "canon wars," multiculturalism, and cultural change. Defining meaning as a system of boundaries, Bryson uncovers specific mechanisms through which social institutions preserve themselves by imposing old meanings on new ideas. She connects those insights to some of todays most difficult cultural policy challenges, including campus (or workplace) diversity, individual responsibility, and the policy pitfalls of defining culture as something separate from social life. Bryson contends that cultural policy should abandon the "norms and values" definition of culture as individual beliefs and focus instead on the cultural implications of structure. Back Cover "...Brysons book is an incisive and provocative account of multiculturalism in action, told in a style that never strains for academic pomposity. In an important way, hers is a telltale reminder that multiculturalism, when it remains as empty talk, can easily become a cover for the deeper structural problems that reproduce social inequality."-American Journal of Sociology "Bethany Bryson steps into the heart of the multiculturalism battle. She offers a compelling book that directly challenges some of the common ideas, arguments, and conclusions about culture, cultural change, and higher education that have become dominant themes in the culture wars." -Alford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan Flap Multiculturalism was a hot issue on college campuses in the 1990s, and it was a confusing issue, especially for English professors. Making Multiculturalism ventures into four college English departments to explore how professors made sense of multiculturalism. Their answers provide important insights into the "canon wars," multiculturalism, and cultural change. Defining meaning as a system of boundaries, Bryson uncovers specific mechanisms through which social institutions preserve themselves by imposing old meanings on new ideas. She connects those insights to some of todays most difficult cultural policy challenges, including campus (or workplace) diversity, individual responsibility, and the policy pitfalls of defining culture as something separate from social life. Bryson contends that cultural policy should abandon the "norms and values" definition of culture as individual beliefs and focus instead on the cultural implications of structure. Author Biography Bethany Bryson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Table of Contents @fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables and Figuresiii Acknowledgmentsiii @toc2:1Introduction: Culture to the Rescue0 @toc3:The Myth of Omnipotent Culture0 The Research0 A Road Map for Cultural Change0 @toc2:2Professors and the Press: Definitions of Multiculturalism00 @toc3:Multiculturalism in the National Arena00 My First Interview00 Making Sense of Multiculturalism00 Four Themes00 Meaninglessness00 Diversity00 Non-Diversity (Literary Value and the Anti-Canon)00 Connections00 The Heart of the Multicultural Lotus00 Fighting Words00 @toc2:3Abstraction in Action: Departmental Multiculturalism00 @toc3:Ivory Towers000 State Star00 Multicultural State00 Cathletic00 Organized Culture00 @toc2:4Taking Sides in Quicksand: Meaning, Abstraction & Ambiguity000 @toc3:The Role of Meaning and Ambiguity in Stancetaking000 Abstraction, Responsibility & Opinion000 Prestigious Complexity and Public Support000 Refinement: Multiple Meanings Lead to Mixed Opinions000 @toc2:5Boundary Disputes: The Cultural Territories of Academe000 @toc3:The "crisis" in English literature000 State Star000 Ivory Towers000 Multicultural State000 Cathletic University000 Conclusion000 @toc2:6Managing Multiculturalism: Curriculum Strategies for Reducing Conflict000 @toc3:Curricular Battlegrounds000 Ivory Towers000 State Star000 MC State000 Cathletic University000 Conflict and the Curriculum000 @toc2:7Conclusion: Culture to Blame000 @toc3:A Policy Response to Bad Culture000 Powerful Abstractions000 Radical Change Requires Structure000 Racist Structures000 Beyond Socialization: Speaking Truth to Structure000 Translating Cultural Change000 @toc4:Notes000 References000 Index000 Review "...Brysons book is an incisive and provocative account of multiculturalism in action, told in a style that never strains for academic pomposity. In an important way, hers is a telltale reminder that multiculturalism, when it remains as empty talk, can easily become a cover for the deeper structural problems that reproduce social inequality." - American Journal of Sociology "Bethany Bryson steps into the heart of the multiculturalism battle. She offers a compelling book that directly challenges some of the common ideas, arguments, and conclusions about culture, cultural change, and higher education that have become dominant themes in the culture wars." - Alford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan "Bethany Bryson makes an extremely interesting and unusual intervention in what has to-date been a debate conducted in the abstract terms of cultural criticism. Making Multiculturalism will be influential and, in the best sense of the word, controversial." - Elizabeth Long, Rice University Long Description Multiculturalism was a hot issue on college campuses in the 1990s, and it was a confusing issue, especially for English professors. Making Multiculturalism ventures into four college English departments to explore how professors made sense of multiculturalism. Their answers provide important insights into the "canon wars," multiculturalism, and cultural change. Defining meaning as a system of boundaries, Bryson uncovers specific mechanisms through which social institutions preserve themselves by imposing old meanings on new ideas. She connects those insights to some of todays most difficult cultural policy challenges, including campus (or workplace) diversity, individual responsibility, and the policy pitfalls of defining culture as something separate from social life. Bryson contends that cultural policy should abandon the "norms and values" definition of culture as individual beliefs and focus instead on the cultural implications of structure. Review Quote "...Brysons book is an incisive and provocative account of multiculturalism in action, told in a style that never strains for academic pomposity. In an important way, hers is a telltale reminder that multiculturalism, when it remains as empty talk, can easily become a cover for the deeper structural problems that reproduce social inequality."-American Journal of Sociology Details ISBN0804751633 Short Title MAKING MULTICULTURALISM Pages 232 Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804751633 ISBN-13 9780804751636 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2005 Edition 1st Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Boundaries and Meaning in U.S. English Departments Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780804751636 UK Release Date 2005-05-03 AU Release Date 2005-05-03 NZ Release Date 2005-05-03 US Release Date 2005-05-03 Author Bethany Bryson Publication Date 2005-05-03 Alternative 9780804756563 DEWEY 378.017 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 5 tables, 4 figures We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780804751636
Book Title: Making Multiculturalism
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Making Multiculturalism: Boundaries and Meaning in U.S. English Departments
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Education, Strategy
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 413 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Bethany Bryson
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
