Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance

by Lilia I. Bartolomé and Donaldo Macedo

Book Overview

One of the most pressing challenges facing educators in the US is the specter of an "ethnic and cultural war"--a code phrase that engenders our society's licentiousness toward racism. In Dancing with Bigotry, Donaldo Macedo and Lilia Bartolome use examples from the mass media, popular culture, and politics to illustrate the larger situations facing educators and how this type of argument is ignored in much of the academic research and rhetoric. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312293267
• ISBN13: 9780312293260
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Major Intervention into Multiculturalism Debates

Dancing with Bigotry is a very important book for anyone concerned with issues of multiculturalism, education, and racism. It convincingly and passionately argues that U.S. education is a colonial system in need of a radical democratic transformation. It contains brilliant dialogues with Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux on pedagogy, race, culture, language, and politics.