Rather than Reject a Common Culture, Multiculturalism Advocates a More Complicated Route by Which to Achieve It.

Erickson, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ428844

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Rather than Reject a Common Culture, Multiculturalism Advocates a More Complicated Route by Which to Achieve It.

Erickson, Peter

Chronicle of Higher Education, v37 n41 pB1-3 Jun 26 1991

The article examines the controversy between traditionalists and multiculturalists in revising the literary canon, and advocates replacement of traditionalist assumptions of universalism in literature with recognition of the various identities of readers, especially in light of substantial bodies of work by minority writers. (DB)

Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change, Higher Education, Literature, Minority Groups, Multicultural Education, Opinions

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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