Opening the American mind : race, ethnicity, and gender in higher education / edited by Geoffrey M. Sill [and others].

Contents The de-Europeanization of American culture / Leon Botstein -- Cult-lit : Hirsch, literacy, and "The national culture" / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Practical philosophy and vernacular openings : the Poetry Project and the American mind / Houston Baker, Jr. -- Extending the democratic tradition in American higher education : infusing race, ethnicity and gender across the curriculum / James J. Scanlon -- The campus racial climate and the demographic imperative / John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. -- The dog that didn't bark in the night, or a case study of integrating race and gender studies into the curriculum / Ann S. Ferren, Kay Mussell -- Setting a tone of acceptance : impairment and the schools / Barbara Hardaway -- Teaching "outrageously" : working with student resistance / Susan R. Horton -- The melting pot in the classroom / Susan Dean -- The end of "American" literature : toward a multicultural practice / Gregory S. Jay -- What shall be the tune? : oppositional studies and the limits of "happy pluralism" / Theodore O. Mason, Jr. -- Capturing a chameleon called literacy / Miriam T. Chaplin --
Contents Bilingual education : a teacher's guide to recent publications on theory and practice / Jean Ritzke.
Local noteLittle-287087--305130048805.
General notePapers derived from a conference hosted by Rutgers University--Camden, held in Philadelphia and Camden.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 214-229) and index.
LCCN 92050856
ISBN0874134730 (alk. paper)

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