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In the first part of this chapter, I begin by discussing three forms of reactionary multicultural education in the United States identified by Peter McLaren. I go on to analyze McLaren’s advocacy, in his postmodern phase, of ‘critical resistant multiculturalism’, a form of multiculturalism favored by Critical Race Theorist Gloria Ladson-Billings. I conclude the section of the chapter on the United States by appraising McLaren’s promotion, since he returned to the Marxist problematic, of ‘revolutionary multiculturalism’.
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Notes
For a recent critical Marxist analysis of Schooling in Capitalist America, see Rikowski (2005b).
It should be recorded that there was one mainstream exception. The left-wing Inner London Education Authority (ILEA), eventually abolished by Thatcher in 1988, published a number of equality documents in the 1980s, including Race, Sex and Class: 4. Anti-Racist Statement and Guidelines (ILEA, 1983), and distributed the pamphlets to all of its schools. For an analysis of the political climate in the years of the Radical Right, see, for example Hill, 1989, 1997; see also Jones, 2003; Tomlinson, 2005.
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Cole, M. (2009). Multicultural Education and Antiracist Education in the United States and the United Kingdom. In: Critical Race Theory and Education. Marxism and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620117_5
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