Against the Multicultural Agenda

This is a pioneering work timely scholarly and grounded in critical-sociological anthropological and philosophical traditions. It offers an empathic analysis of pluralist Afrocentric and postmodernist advocacies of multicultural education and multiculturalism but reveals formidable flaws in their conceptions of gender race culture knowledge learning and social change. It is required reading for those desiring a synopsis of the literature on multicultural education and multiculturalism and an understanding of the disputes among the various schools of thought. The author claims that multiculturalism is ^Inot^R a remedy for problems of sexism racism and educational underachievement among ethnic minorities. Rather so questionable is multiculturalism''s endorsement of biological classifications so relativistic and moralistic are its arguments on cultural differences and so negligent its analysis of human reasoning that it has become a political pawn. Read Against the Multicultural Agenda to discover what is wrong with the multicultural agenda and what is powerfully persuasive about the alternativecritical thinking.